Handbook provides 50 content learning strategies with directions, models, and reproducible templates.

What are the principles that every elementary teacher must learn in order to plan and adapt successful literacy instruction? This concise course text and practitioner resource brings together leading experts to explain the guiding ideas that underlie effective instructional practice. Each chapter reviews one or more key principles and highlights ways to apply them flexibly in diverse classrooms and across grade levels and content areas. Chapters cover core instructional topics (phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension); high-quality learning environments; major issues such as assessment, differentiation, explicit instruction, equity, and culturally relevant pedagogy; and the importance of teachers’ reflective practice and lifelong learning.

To help your students learn a world language, don’t forget the power of reading! In this practical book from Donna Spangler and John Alex Mazzante, you’ll gain a variety of strategies and activities that you can use to teach students to read in a world language, boosting their comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency. Perfect for any age or proficiency level, these classroom-ready activities can easily be adapted to suit your needs! Special features: A discussion of the challenges to teaching reading in the world language classroom A variety of adaptable pre-reading, during-reading, and post-reading strategies and activities for students across grade levels and languages Essential tips for cultivating vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension Reader’s Theater – a special chapter of strategies for implementing this exciting technique A list of helpful websites and apps for world language teachers Useful appendices, including reproducible material for your classroom Busy world language teachers will love this book’s numerous classroom examples, ready-to-use templates, and free online reading sources. Bonus: The book includes eResources that are free to adapt and print for classroom use from our website, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138853515.

The research question addressed in this project was, what are the recommended applications of reading comprehension strategies in the classroom? This study documents one teacher's application of three reading comprehension strategies in a primary classroom. It used the model of Gradual Release of Responsibility, based on Duke and Pearson's research into instructional methods of reading comprehension. The author documents the details of the lesson and uses related research literature to construct meaning and validate the study. She describes both successes and struggles in implementing the lessons and concludes that: 1) teachers need to be explicit in the instruction of reading comprehension strategies; 2) teachers need to be selective in the strategies and materials selected to teach; 3) teachers need to provide sufficient time for the application of strategies.

Many students struggle with reading in the content areas. There is a transition as students enter the upper grades from learning to read to reading to learn. Students often do not receive instruction in learning to read for understanding. As a result, students struggle how to comprehend expository text. This paper will investigate best practices for teaching reading in the content areas. Through literature reviews, working with students, and best practice investigation, several guidelines are given for encouraging reading in the content area. The conclusion of this research is a tool kit of reading strategies for content area teachers.

Research on discourse (or text) processing has only recently come into its own. It builds on the work of text analysis which has a long and distinguished history, but modern developments in psychology (e.g. memory research), artificial intelligence, linguistics and philosophy have contributed to this emergence in the last decade as a lively and promising research area.This book contains 46 selected and edited contributions from the International Symposium held in Fribourg in 1981, and represents a truly international overview of the developments in research on written and oral discourse. The contributions have been grouped according to problem area and not according to methodology, with the intention of focusing on the important issues in the field of discourse processing and of showing how diverse approaches contribute to a better understanding of the problems involved. The main themes are: text structure, coherence, inference, memory processes, attention and control, goal perspectives, and educational implications.