Comprehension from the Ground Up: Simplified, Sensible Instruction for the K-3 Reading Workshop [With CDROM]

By Sharon Taberski

Book Overview

Sharon Taberski cuts through the pressurized, strategy-overloaded, fluency-crazed atmosphere surrounding reading instruction to lay out the reading and writing workshop practices that are most effective in developing readers in the primary grades. She shares the daily how-tos needed to sustain a literacy block that engages children in authentic reading and writing practices including dozens of effective practices that illustrate amazing ways to organize instructional and independent reading for kids including: letter and sound searches that improve students' word accuracy and fluency companion books bags that develop their confidence and comprehension strategy sheets that make children's thinking about text concrete a Putting Our Strategies to Work Board that enables students to reflect on and discuss the meta-cognitive strategies they're using Idea Books and Ta-da Publishing Books that help children get inside the reading and writing process and see how each feeds the other.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0325004110
• ISBN13: 9780325004112
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 10.9"
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 3