"Experienced educators highlight key reading strategies used by proficient readers and offer suggestions for teaching these strategies throughout the reading process and across the curriculum." This professional resource includes the specifics for teaching ten of these key reading strategies: (1) Setting a Purpose; (2) Synthesizing; (3) Questioning; (4) Making Inferences; (5) Determining Importance; (6) Visualizing; (7) Connecting to Prior Knowledge; (8) Comparing/Contrasting; (9) Predicting; and (10) Self-Monitoring.

Readers can browse through the ten strategies, then link to the specific details for the reading strategy. Each strategy is thoroughly explained, including a detailed definition of the reading strategy, where the strategy is discussed in the Ohio Academic Content Standards, how the strategy supports reading comprehension, what before, during, and after activities support students in using this strategy, how the strategy can be used to teach vocabulary, and where readers can go for additional resources pertaining to the strategy. This is an especially remarkable resource, both in its breadth and scope, for Ohio middle and high school teachers. (author/ebm)