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Direct linkBoon, Richard T., Ed.; Spencer, Vicky G., Ed. – Prufrock Press Inc, 2010
Written by expert teachers and researchers, "Best Practices for the Inclusive Classroom: Scientifically Based Strategies for Success" looks at field-tested strategies that teachers of inclusive classrooms need to implement to successfully teach all of the learners in their classroom. The purpose of the book is to provide both general and special…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Classroom Techniques, Reading Comprehension, Intervention
Peer reviewedFischer, Cynthia – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2003
Presents the structured comprehension method, a strategy that facilitates literal, inferential, and critical reading comprehension for passive readers who can decode but not comprehend. Uses the method to illustrate how other areas of students' instruction (e.g., vocabulary enhancement through morphemic analysis, use of a phonogram approach to…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Instructional Innovation, Program Effectiveness
Harvey, Stephanie; Goudvis, Anne – Stenhouse Publishers, 2007
Since its publication in 2000, Strategies That Work has become an indispensable resource for teachers who want to explicitly teach thinking strategies so that students become engaged, thoughtful, independent readers. In this revised and expanded edition, the authors have added twenty completely new comprehension lessons, extending the scope of the…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Grade 4, Teaching Methods, Inferences
Peer reviewedJones, H. Jon; Wolf, Page J. – Reading Improvement, 2001
Describes a course that was designed to provide instruction in the methods and procedures that can be utilized to enhance student comprehension of textbooks and other printed materials that are encountered in a content area. Discusses instructor concerns, the support system, planning, course assignments, students, instructor workload, and course…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Distance Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Syrja, Rachel Carrillo – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2011
This book provides practical strategies and tools for assessing and teaching even the most hard to reach English language learners across the content areas. Syrja offers educators the latest information on working with ELLs (including using formative assessments) and provides a wealth of classroom-tested models and measures. These tools have…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods, Success
Download full textAlvermann, Donna E., Ed.; And Others – 1987
Focusing on how secondary school reading programs can be organized and on how their effectiveness can be measured, this book synthesizes reading research in several significant areas and makes concrete suggestions for using this research to improve reading instruction. Each chapter, opens with a question posed by a teacher, discusses research with…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Educational Theories
