Teaching the Information Generation: Strategies for Helping Primary Readers Understand the Fact-Filled Texts They Encounter Throughout Their School Years (Theory and Practice) - Softcover

Over the past two decades, Vicki Benson Castagna has been an elementary classroom teacher, special ed/learning disabilities teacher, elementary principal, and college professor. She is a popular workshop and inservice speaker, working extensively across the nation-and the world. She worked for 10 years in international schools in South America.

Vicki's research and instructional strategies in the area of comprehension have gained national attention. She co-authored, with Carrice Cummins, The Power of Retelling for the Wright Group and developed the company's national workshop on fiction and nonfiction retelling. She received her doctorate from the University of Alabama, where she earned the Outstanding Dissertation Award for the College of Education for her research about beginning teachers in their transition to constructivist teaching. Her current work focuses on helping teachers make fiction and nonfiction text explicit to young readers by using cognitive strategies.