Gunning, Thomas G.
Reading Comprehension Boosters : 100 Lessons for Building Higher-Level Literacy, Grades 3-5
An effective resource for improving young students' comprehension skills
With 100 high-interest reading activities, this book is designed to help students gain fundamental comprehension skills so they can succeed in reading complex and varied types of texts. Each lesson includes a brief reading selection followed by questions, multiple-choice selections, and thinking and writing activities. The activities, all on reproducible worksheets, can be used to give individual students or groups extra practice, or as supplemental skill-building and test-prep activities for the full class.
- Activities are grouped within seven units, each focusing on an important aspect of comprehension
- Units increase in difficulty level so that students gain proficiency as they work through the material
- High-interest themes include stories about robots, animal helpers, space, and famous people
- Offers activities that build the advanced cognitive skills called for in the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP)
Each lesson includes a teacher section with guidance on how to introduce the activities to students and support them in their reading practices.
Keywords: teaching students to improve comprehensive, literacy activities, lessons for literacy, lessons for teaching literacy, lessons for improving comprehension, lessons for improving literacy, reading lessons, teaching reading
- Author(s)
- Gunning, Thomas G.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2010
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 320 pages
- Category
- Upbringing, Education
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9780470609521
- Printed ISBN
- 9780470399927