Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning

The updated edition of this top-selling title will help teachers develop students into purposeful thinkers and proficient readers by using classroom strategies that scaffold comprehension. Doug Buehl has completely revised his collection of literacy skill-building strategies to bring this edition more in line with today's thinking about reading comprehension. The stronger focus on gradual release of responsibility, metacognition, and what happens before, during, and after reading will get you thinking about how students can really own the strategies. Buehl has added 11 new, user-friendly strategies that can be adapted to a variety of ability levels. The format of the strategies remains the same, but you'll find a stronger emphasis on the rationale for each and a broader variety of content area classroom examples.The Strategy Indexes that accompany each strategy will assist you in your instructional planning and have been updated to include the strengths of each strategy in terms of instructional focus and comprehension processes.