Reading Comprehension Skills
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Reading Comprehension Skills and Strategies Level 6
Every book in the series contains over 100 reproducible pages--more than 125 activities--that combine solid reading comprehension skills reinforcement and enrichment with reading comprehension strategy instruction. Based on the standards, the series features ready-to-use resource pages filled with instructional tips and extended activity ideas plus a "Scope and Sequence Skills Chart" to track student progress. Includes answer key, 144 pages. Title Includes: Visual and Context Clues, Vocabulary, Signal Words, Figures of Speech, Prediction, Story Grammar.
Reading Comprehension Skills
Reading Comprehension Skills explores the cognitive processes behind effective reading, addressing how readers can improve understanding and retention. It emphasizes that reading comprehension is not passive but an active process improved through targeted strategies. The book delves into crucial areas such as vocabulary acquisition, where expanding knowledge helps unlock complex texts, and active reading, which transforms rote reading into engaged analysis. The book progresses systematically, starting with core cognitive concepts like working memory and attention before moving into specific strategies for vocabulary development and active reading techniques like SQ3R. A key focus is metacognition, teaching readers to monitor their understanding and address comprehension breakdowns in real time. By integrating cognitive principles with practical techniques, the book empowers readers to understand why strategies work, not just how. Drawing from literacy research, cognitive psychology, and educational science, the book provides evidence-based techniques for improved reading comprehension, essential for academic success and lifelong learning. It emphasizes the importance of understanding one's own comprehension process, allowing readers to identify areas of confusion and apply ""fix-up"" strategies effectively. This approach is especially valuable for students, educators, and anyone seeking to become a more engaged and proficient reader.
Understanding and Teaching Reading Comprehension
The ultimate aim of reading is not the process but to understand what we read and comprehension can take place at many different levels. There has been an increasing emphasis on the importance of reading comprehension in recent years but despite this there is very little written on this vital topic accessible to trainee and practicing teachers. The Handbook of Reading Comprehension presents an overview of recent findings on reading comprehension and comprehension problems in children. It provides a detailed examination of the characteristics of children who have reading comprehension difficulties, and examines ways in which comprehension can be supported and improved. It is accessibly written for students and professionals with no previous background in the psychology of reading or reading problems. This indispensable handbook asks the question ‘what is comprehension?’ The authors consider comprehension of different units of language: understanding single words, sentences, and connected prose and outline what readers (and listeners) have to do to successfully understand an extended text. This book also considers comprehension for different purposes, in particular reading for pleasure and reading to learn and explores how reader characteristics such as interest and motivation can influence the comprehension process. Different skills contribute to successful reading comprehension. These include word reading ability, vocabulary knowledge, syntactic skills, memory, and discourse level skills such as the ability to make inferences, knowledge about text structure, and metacognitive skills. The authors discuss how each one contributes to the development of reading comprehension skill and how the development of these skills (or their precursors) in pre-readers, provides the foundation for reading comprehension development. Areas covered include:- Word reading and comprehension Development of comprehension skills Comprehension difficulties Assessment Teaching for improvement Throughout the text successful experimental and classroom based interventions will be highlighted, practical tips for teachers and summary boxes detailing key points and explaining technical terms will be included in each chapter