Reading With Meaning: Teaching Comprehension in the Primary Grades

If you have ever wondered how to teach comprehension strategies to primary-age children, read on.

First, imagine a primary-grade classroom where all the children are engaged and motivated; where the buzz of excited, emerging readers fills the air; where simultaneously words are sounded out and connections are made between the books of their choice and the experiences of their lives. Then, open these pages.

Welcome to Debbie Miller's real classroom where real students are learning to love to read, to write, and are together creating a collaborative and caring environment. In this book, Debbie focuses on how best to teach children strategies for comprehending text. She leads the reader through the course of a year showing how her students learn to become thoughtful, independent, and strategic readers. Through explicit instruction, modeling, classroom discussion, and, most important, by gradually releasing responsibility to her students, Debbie provides a model for creating a climate and culture of thinking and learning.

Here you will learn:

techniques for modeling thinking;
specific examples of modeled strategy lessons for inferring, asking questions, making connections, determining importance in text, creating mental images, and synthesizing information;
how to help children make their thinking visible through oral, written, artistic, and dramatic responses to literature;
how to successfully develop book clubs as a way for children to share their thinking.

Reading with Meaning shows you how to bring your imagined classroom to life. You will emerge with new tools for teaching comprehension strategies and a firm appreciation that a rigorous classroom can also be nurturing and joyful.

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jun-10-2009; A MUST HAVE for primary teachers!; Debbie Miller is truly a genius! This book is such an easy read, you will get wrapped up in it. It's not written like a text book, rather a conversation with Debbie. She is passionate about teaching, which comes through on every page,...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Apr-02-2009; Great resource for veteran or new educators; I've found many new insights in this book and I've been teaching for many years. I highly recommend any book by Debbie Miller!; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Feb-04-2009; Motivation; Debbie Miller is a great motivation for students preparing to be teachers, or current educators needing some reassurance about teaching their students to read. Her strategies are genuine and she conveys her techniques in a way that...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-18-2008; Great Book for Parents and Teachers ! !; I's so glad that reading is being looked at as more than just being able to 'say the words on the page.' This book has great strategies and activities to teach children the meaning of what they read. Add to this two fabulous literature...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jun-10-2009; A MUST HAVE for primary teachers!; Debbie Miller is truly a genius! This book is such an easy read, you will get wrapped up in it. It's not written like a text book, rather a conversation with Debbie. She is passionate about teaching, which comes through on every page,...; read full review | report as inappropriate