Teaching Comprehension Strategies: Bk. D: Developing Reading Comprehension Skills

This title features contemporary photocopiable series that methodically and creatively teaches pupils the strategies and skills needed for effective comprehension. It covers twelve strategies such as understanding words, finding information, identifying main idea, sequencing, comparing, predicting, concluding, summarizing, inferring, cause and effect, fact or opinion, point of view. It includes original fiction and non fiction texts, customized to suit the strategy being taught. Each strategy taught through modelling and followed by practice and independent activities. It provides test page for each strategy to aid assessment. It contains detailed teachers notes for each strategy, including answers. It also includes digital version on accompanying CD Rom. It is a seven book series to cover the whole primary age range.