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Publication Date: 2009-May
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Orientation to a New Book: More than a Picture Walk
Briggs, Connie; Forbes, Salli
Reading Teacher, v62 n8 p706-709 May 2009
This article provides information to support teacher practice of providing thoughtful, individually crafted, book orientations. Supporting emergent and struggling readers to access meaning, structure, and visual information keeps reading work easy, yet provides opportunities for problem solving that allows engagement in independent and successful processing behaviors. (Contains 1 table.)
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Books, Orientation, Learner Engagement, Beginning Reading, Reading Difficulties
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