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Making Deep Sense of Informational Texts: A Framework for Strengthening Comprehension in Grades 6-12
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Gwen J. Pauloski – Solution Tree, 2025
Author Gwen J. Pauloski introduces four flexible adolescent literacy practices that help secondary students make deeper sense of the complex informational texts they encounter in school and beyond. Adolescent readers learn age-appropriate comprehension strategies and practice applying them as they discuss, analyze, and write about their reading.…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Students
Practical Steps toward Culturally Responsive K-12 Literacy Instruction: Resisting Barriers, Using Texts, and Making Space
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Christy Howard; Mikkaka Overstreet; Anne Swenson Ticknor – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2024
Howard, Overstreet, and Ticknor build on the framework they established in their first book "It's Not 'One More Thing'." They extend their practical how-to strategies for enacting culturally responsive and affirming literacy instruction in K-12 classrooms specific to literacy assessment, engaging texts used for literacy instruction, and…
Descriptors: Literacy, Culturally Relevant Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Teaching Methods
Making Meaning with Readers and Texts: Beginning Teachers' Meaning-Making from Classroom Events. Advances in Research on Teaching. Volume 40
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Edge, Christi U. – Advances in Research on Teaching, 2022
Connecting the constructs of meaning and experience in the fields of English education, teacher education, literacy and narrative inquiry, "Making Meaning with Readers and Texts" materializes new insights for advancing teacher education research, broadening understandings of teachers' use of literacy practices for making meaning from…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Teacher Education Programs, Literacy Education, Inquiry
Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding, Engagement, and Building Knowledge, Grades K-8. Third Edition
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Harvey, Stephanie; Goudvis, Anne – Stenhouse Publishers, 2017
In this new edition of their groundbreaking book "Strategies That Work," Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis share the work and thinking they've done since the second edition came out a decade ago and offer new perspectives on how to explicitly teach thinking strategies so that students become engaged, thoughtful, independent readers.…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Learner Engagement, Elementary School Students