Comprehension Connections: Bridges to Strategic Reading

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Inferring, questioning, determining importance. It's not easy to explain these abstract reading strategies to elementary readers, yet knowing how they work and how to use them is an important first step to connecting with texts. Fortunately Tanny McGregor has developed visual, tangible, everyday lessons that make abstract thinking concrete and that can help every child in your classroom make more effective use of reading comprehension strategies.

Comprehension Connections is a guide to developing children's ability to fully understand texts by making the comprehension process achievable, accessible, and incremental. McGregor's approach sequences stages of learning for each strategy that take students from a fun object lesson to a nuanced and lasting understanding. Her lessons build bridges between the concrete and the abstract by incorporating writing, discussion, song, art, and movement into a web of creative connections that reinforce each strategy on a variety of levels. All the while Comprehension Connections offers an inside look at the dynamic of McGregor's teaching, showing you how her ideas look in action, and including the language she uses and that she encourages her students to use as they build their facility with:

schema
inferring
questioning
determining importance
visualizing
synthesizing.

Many students struggle to understand what it is they are supposed to do as they learn to read strategically. Help them make connections to the ideas behind reading and watch as your readers go deeper into texts than ever before.

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Posted: May-25-2009

Perfect for literacy teachers

I think I have mentioned Comprehension Connections: Bridges to Strategic Reading by Tanny McGregor before, but it is an invaluable tool for any language arts teacher! Today I used one of the lesson suggestions for inference and it was a huge success!I brought in a bag of "trash" that I told my...

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Posted: Apr-06-2009

Excellent Book

I loved this book! I have used it in my classroom in my second grade classroom for over a year now. The book is a quick read and easy to use. Tanny has totally changed the way I teach comprehension. I would HIGHLY suggest that every teacher who teaches comprehension strategies to their students...

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Posted: Mar-15-2009

Short, Sweet, and Meaty

This book is wonderful because it gives concert lessons to teach abstract ideas. I'm currently doing a book study at school and the teachers absolutely love it. They are trying lessons each week and raving about the results. Great purchase! I also like this book because a variety of grade...

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Posted: Oct-07-2008

Comprehension Connections

This is an excellent book. Very easy to read with some great ideas for activities that you can immediately implement in your classroom with little preparation.

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Posted: Aug-31-2008

Great book!

This book was suggested by fellow teachers. It's a great book for teachers that already have a handle on reading strategies. It gives great and easy to duplicate ideas.

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Posted: Aug-29-2008

Great Lessons Inside

This book provides teachers with a way to introduce the comprehension strategies. It has very orginal ways to get the kids thinking about thinking as they read. My third graders responded well to the langauge and activities provided in the book. It was a quick read, but described strategies I...

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Posted: Aug-24-2008

A "MUST READ": Tanny's enthusiasm about making comprehension "real" to students is contagious!

I am an elementary teacher currently using Tanny's book to inform my small group reading instruction. It didn't take me long to realize what a goldmine of information she provides; and it all makes sense. Reading this book is what I'd imagine sitting down with the author at Starbucks to be...

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Posted: Jul-01-2008

Comprehension Connections

Great resource for all primary elementary teachers. Great ideas to develop schema for various comprehension strategies!

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Posted: Jun-24-2008

Best Comprehension Book Around

This book meets the big areas of comprehension with concrete and engaging activities that will introduce strategies to your students and provide a gradual release of responsibility!

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Posted: Jun-11-2008

Great book!

I love this book! It is so easy to read. As a reading coach, I am writing a grant to get this book for my faculty so that we can do a book study. The book makes comprehension concrete for children. I have used the lessons in the book with both kindergarten students and fifth graders. I would...

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