Constructing Meaning Through Kid-Friendly Comprehension ... (ISBN 0929895746)

Guidebook to honing one's teaching skills:
Enhanced with an accompanying CD, Constructing Meaning Through Kid-Friendly Comprehension Strategy Instruction by Nancy N. Boyles (Professor, Graduate Reading Program, and Graduate Reading Program Coordinator at Southern Connecticut State University) is a resource intended especially for educators, including teachers, parents, tutors, and home schoolers. Techniques meant to maximize a students' ability to comprehend written text through strategies applied while reading, focused lessons offering specific strategy applications, an included CD with classroom-ready visual supports and recommendations for guide-reading group practice or think-aloud modeling sessions, and much more fill this quality resource. Constructing Meaning is an expert and professionally written guidebook to honing one's teaching skills and bringing out the best in one's students.

Constructing Meaning:
This book is full of practical and kid friendly comprehension strategies that any teacher can use to help students with comprehension. There are charts/posters, sample lessons, and reading activity forms that can be reproduced or forms may be downloaded by a CD that is included with the book. The reading strategy activity forms can be used with a book of your choice to teach a specific reading comprehension strategy. Dr. Nancy Boyles also recommended a bibliography of books to teach each strategy. This is a great book to read if you are still searching for reading strategies to help your class with comprehension.

The Comprehension Bible:
This book is a MUST for classroom teachers and reading teachers/literacy coaches. It provides easy to use lesson plan templates, an extensive bibliography, and ready-to-use reproducibles while focusing on research-based comprehension strategy instruction. This book will answer questions for teachers of reading. They will know why and how to teach comprehension strategies. Dr. Boyles knows how to give teachers the information they need so that they can try things immediately.