Reading with Meaning: Teaching Comprehension in the Primary Grades

Title: Reading with Meaning: Teaching Comprehension in the Primary Grades
Level: Primary Grades
Author(s): Debbie Miller
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
Date: 2002
Pages: 210
Size: 1.96 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

If you have dedicated yourself to producing thoughtful readers who read for meaning, this is the book you need! Not only is it filled with helpful lesson ideas, but the arrangement of each chapter follows a scaffolded approach to help young readers engage and develop as lifelong readers. Miller shows teachers how to lay out the entire year. Included in this book are chapters about schema building, mental images, inferring, questioning, non-fiction reading, and synthesizing. [+/-]

She focuses on one comprehension strategy in each chapter, including how to introduce it to students and what children's books she considers "tried-and-true." At the end of each chapter, the author includes a list of children's book titles that all highlight the comprehension strategy perfectly for young children.

All of the books she recommends are outstanding pieces of literature that children adore. Also, the lessons work well in a Reader's Workshop format. After instruction, students can get busy practicing reading from their own books by using what they learned right away. This book is an outstanding resource for any teacher!

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