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May 2005
Explicit Comprehension Strategies

“The tough part about comprehension instruction is that all the good stuff that is taking place is invisible. In order to teach kids how to think about their reading, we have to show them how we, the best readers in the class, think about text."
   —Cris Tovani





February 2008

Linking Language Arts and Social Studies

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CONTENTS
Feature
Show Me the Thinking: Making Comprehension Instruction Visible
by Cris Tovani
 
Classroom Vignettes
Using Email to Engage Students in the Reading Process--It Works!
by Carolyn Suttles
 
Book Hook Day
by Joyce K. Rowland
 
Student Voices
Some of the Techniques I Use to Keep Track of Important Information I Find When I Am Reading
 
A Look at the OGT
Using Results for Planning Instruction
by Carol Brown Dodson
 
From the ORC Collection
More Resources on Explicit Comprehension Strategies
 

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