To Understand New Horizons in Reading Comprehension

Name: To Understand New Horizons in Reading Comprehension
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ISBN: 9780325003238

ISBN-10: 0325003238

ISBN-13: 9780325003238

Edition: 2008

Authors: Ellin Oliver Keene

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s ldquo;This is a work of incredible scope:sadventurous, ingratiating, challenging,sgenuinely groundbreaking, and gorgeously written. It will knock the socks off this profession.rdquo; - Harvey Daniels Author of Subjects Matter and Content-Area Writing s s The renaissance in comprehension instruction launched by Mosaic of Thought has led to changes in hundreds of thousands of classrooms, where teachers now model reading strategies, and students probe meaning more deeply. But no book in the field has satisfactorily answered the question: What does it really mean to comprehend? In To Understand, Ellin Oliver Keene not only explores this important question, but reveals what teachers can… do to encourage all students to engage in deep understanding far more consistently than before. s In discovering what's really behind comprehension, To Understand goes well beyond comprehension strategy instruction. Keene identifies specific Dimensions and Outcomes of Understanding - characteristics identified in sreaders with a highly developed ability to make sense of text - to help you rethink what comprehension is. She demonstrates how to leverage the Dimensions and Outcomes into relevant, provocative, memorable instruction. s To Understand proposes a model that incorporates all aspects of literacy instruction - word learning and comprehension - and describes how teachers can focus on what matters most in literacy content. Keene shows that when teachers target the most essential content, they have the time to help every student engage more deeply with texts and discover a passion for reading and learning. The model is founded on four simple, but powerful concepts: Focus on what's important by teaching vital concepts in depth ratherthan skimming over nonessential skills Use research-based teaching and learning strategies, including proven-effective comprehension and language-based strategies, then taking them further by showing students how the strategies lead them to a fuller understand of a text Teach the essential concepts over a long period of time so that children have an opportunity to learn not only a comprehension strategy, but to explore where that strategy leads in their understanding Give students numerous opportunities to apply the concepts in a variety of texts and contexts. s With To Understand in hand, you'll find new ways to draw out the innate intellectual interest in every student and spark dramatic improvements in literacy learning and comprehension, even among students who struggle. You'll see that by rethinking what it means to understand - by teaching children the Outcomes and Dimensions of understanding - you can help students exceed expectations while broadening your vision of their abilities, their capacity, and their energy for learning. s There's still more - much more - to learn about comprehension. Read To Understand, join Ellin Oliver Keene, and discover that what's at the very core of comprehension can not only reinvigorate your teaching but take your students to new, uncharted levels of learning. s s s

Book details

List price: $49.47
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication date: 1/29/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 7.40" wide x 9.30" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Foreword


Acknowledgments


Prelude



Rethinking Understanding



Seeking Understanding in Our Minds, in Our Lives



Driven to Understand



Dwelling in Ideas



To Savor the Struggle



A Renaissance of Understanding



Nothing as Certain as Change



The Great Conversations



To Feel, to Remember, to Understand



Comprehension Strategies Defined



What's Essential? Literacy Content K-12



Conditions for Success in Reader's and Writer's Workshops



Conference Record



Beyond Reporting on the Book: How Children Can Record Their Thinking About Books



Thinking Strategies Proficient Learners Use



Tactics for Teaching Comprehension: Effective Strategies for Teaching Deep Structure Systems



Best Practices in Oral Language Teaching and Learning


Bibliography


Index