Why has comprehension instruction become so complex?
Sharon Taberski
cuts through the pressurized, strategy-overloaded, fluency-crazed atmosphere surrounding reading instruction to lay out the reading and writing workshop practices that are most effective in developing readers in the primary grades. She shares the daily how-tos needed to sustain a literacy block that engages children in authentic reading and writing practices including dozens of
effective practices
that illustrate amazing ways to organize instructional and independent reading for kids including:
letter and sound searches
that improve students' word accuracy and fluency
companion books bags
that develop their confidence and comprehension
strategy sheets
that make children's thinking about text concrete
a
Putting Our Strategies to Work Board
that enables students to reflect on and discuss the meta-cognitive strategies they're using
Idea Books
and
Ta-da Publishing Books
that help children get inside the reading and writing process and see how each feeds the other
.
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Comprehension from the Ground Up
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Lessons from the Ground Up DVD features 105-minutes of video clips of Sharon in the classroom, modeling effective ways to develop comprehension plus a 64-page facilitator's guide supports the DVD, lesson by lesson.
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!
It's All About Comprehension is
a long-term staff development initiative
with 3 DVDs (7 hours) of whole-class, small-group, and one-on-one instruction from Sharon.