Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies : A Practical Classroom Guide

Author(s): Sheena Cameron

Non-fiction:

Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies is a step-by-step guide based on the latest reading comprehension research and is the result of Sheena's learning journey into research-based practice and her experiences teaching in a real classroom.


This book includes information on how to introduce and teach strategies and how they fit into your literacy programme. Each strategy has its own chapter, with:



  • an explanation of the strategy and how it supports comprehension

  • the language we use when using a strategy

  • guided and independent student activities that support teaching the strategy.


There is also an extensive range of teacher- and student-friendly support material, including strategy starter posters, photocopiable masters, bookmarks and certificates.


Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies comes with a CD that provides all photocopy masters and support material in digital format.


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Shortlisted for CLL Educational Publishing Awards: Best Book or Series in Primary Publishing 2010.

Sheena Cameron is an experienced classroom teacher who has taught in New Zealand, England and the United States. She currently works in teacher professional development in New Zealand schools and at Kohia Teachers' Centre at the Faculty of Education at the University of Auckland. Sheena continues to teach in the classroom part time in order to trial ideas and keep in touch with the reality of classroom life.

Part One: Background -- Introduction: A model for introducing and teaching reading comprehension strategies -- Creating a supportive classroom environment for strategy teaching -- Getting started: some frequently asked questions answered -- Recording the learning process -- How to use this book -- Part Two: The Key Strategies -- Activating prior knowledge -- Self-monitoring -- Predicting -- Questioning -- Making connections -- Visualising -- Inferring -- Summarising -- Synthesising -- Other useful strategies -- Skimming -- Scanning -- Building vocabulary knowledge -- References -- Photocopy masters for activities.

General Fields

  • : 9781442518612
  • : Pearson Education Australia
  • : Pearson Education Australia
  • : July 2009
  • : 300x210mm
  • : New Zealand
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Sheena Cameron
  • : Mixed media product
  • : 0909
  • : en
  • : 372.47
  • : 183
  • : Teaching of a specific subject; English (including "English as a school subject")
  • : Colour photographs and BxW illustrations