Reading For Information In Elementary School Content Literacy Strategies To Build Comprehension K-5

by Nancy Frey

Reading for Information in Elementary Content Literacy Strategies to Build Comprehension was written to give k-5 teachers the tools they need to lay an educational groundwork that promotes students’ success with informational text from the early grades. Packed with research-based, classroom-proven strategies, the text follows a before, during, and after reading format that models the most effective approach to reading for information, focusing on the processes required to develop content literacy. You’ll meet the teachers, sit in on their lessons, witness their students’ responses, and come away from this text with a model for teaching your students to read successfully for information and a handbook of proven strategies to implement. Chapter 1 Reading for Information in the Elementary SchoolChapter 2 Conversations for Classroom and School Structures that Support Reading for InformationChapter 3 Attention Anticipatory ActivitiesChapter 4 Word for Vocabulary Development Across the CurriculumChapter 5 Read-Alouds and Shared ReadingsChapter 6 Questions, Questions, EverywhereChapter 7 Picture Graphic OrganizersChapter 8 StructuredNote-Taking and Note-MakingChapter 9 Writing to LearnChapter 10 Measurement Assessment and Testing

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First published April 13, 2006

About the author

Nancy Frey, Ph.D., is an educator and Professor of Literacy in the Department of Educational Leadership at San Diego State University.
Shehas taught at the elementary, middle, and high school levels and is a teacher-leader at Health Sciences High and Middle College.

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