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Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR): Improving Secondary Students' Reading Comprehension Skills
Discipline
Reading
Grades
7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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This professional resource by Christine D. Bremer, Sharon Vaughn, Ann T. Clapper, and Ae-Hwa Kim discusses Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) as an approach to teaching reading in mixed-ability classrooms. This strategy helps students improve their reading comprehension and can be implemented in a subject-area classroom, such as science or social studies, to improve student comprehension of expository text. The authors concede that CSR takes time to teach the various strategies, but students benefit by developing skills enabling them to better understand the material in their reading assignments. An additional benefit of this approach is that students develop skills related to working in groups. This resource also gives explicit steps for implementing CSR in the classroom.(author/mcg)


Ohio English Language Arts Standards (2001)
Reading Process: Concepts of Print, Comprehension Strategies and Self-Monitoring Strategies Standard