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Comprehension Connections: Bridges to Strategic Reading

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Since Mosaic of Thought, I've been reading a lot about teaching reading comprehension strategies. But like my special education students, I needed someone to show me how to teach them-concretely. This little gem gives you anchor lessons for each strategy. The anchor lessons use objects, songs, movement to introduce students to reading strategies. I highly recommend this book to my special education commrades trying to help their students improve comprehension.

I love this book! It is so easy to read. As a reading coach, I am writing a grant to get this book for my faculty so that we can do a book study. The book makes comprehension concrete for children. I have used the lessons in the book with both kindergarten students and fifth graders. I would suggest it for anyone looking to make the instruction of reading comprehension more accessible to elementary age children. I would also recommend it for teachers of struggling students in middle and high school. Explicit, concrete instruction is what this text provides.

Excellent concrete examples and charts that children can relate to and use as anchor lessons. I recommend this book to all elementary teachers of comprehension skills.

I am an elementary teacher currently using Tanny's book to inform my small group reading instruction. It didn't take me long to realize what a goldmine of information she provides; and it all makes sense. Reading this book is what I'd imagine sitting down with the author at Starbucks to be like. She will begin your own inner conversation about the myriad ways to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, using concrete items for object lessons, wordless texts, art, music lyrics, and quotes. The examples of anchor charts Tanny shares are first-rate. If you don't own this book; get it :). You'll have it finished in less time than it took to arrive at your doorstep!

This is an excellent book. Very easy to read with some great ideas for activities that you can immediately implement in your classroom with little preparation.

I loved this book! I have used it in my classroom in my second grade classroom for over a year now. The book is a quick read and easy to use. Tanny has totally changed the way I teach comprehension. I would HIGHLY suggest that every teacher who teaches comprehension strategies to their students read this book.

I received a huge compliment with regard to reading from a fellow second grade teacher whose daughter is in my classroom this year because of the book. One afternoon after school she came into my classroom and said "Keep up whatever you are doing because Sally comes home and tells me everything you are doing in class!She couldn't wait to tell me about the latest lesson you taught about garbage and inferring."

My students love the activities and the experiences help them relate to the comprehension strategies in a concrete way. This book will change the way you teach, you have to read it!

This book provides teachers with a way to introduce the comprehension strategies. It has very orginal ways to get the kids thinking about thinking as they read. My third graders responded well to the langauge and activities provided in the book. It was a quick read, but described strategies I can use throuhgout the year in my classroom. I would recommend it to anyone teaching Harvey's and Keene's comprehension strategies.

This book meets the big areas of comprehension with concrete and engaging activities that will introduce strategies to your students and provide a gradual release of responsibility!

Great resource for all primary elementary teachers. Great ideas to develop schema for various comprehension strategies!

I think I have mentioned Comprehension Connections: Bridges to Strategic Reading by Tanny McGregor before, but it is an invaluable tool for any language arts teacher! Today I used one of the lesson suggestions for inference and it was a huge success!

I brought in a bag of "trash" that I told my kids I took from my weird neighbor's porch. I really do have a weird neighbor, who I know very little about, so I described him. Then I told them we would be inferring information about him based on the items in his garbage. The kids had a BALL with it! By the end of the activity they were concerned for my safety based on what the inferred. It was great!

In their independent reading, they are now working on an inference chart, making inferences about the main character in their novels and citing the evidence to back them up. So far it's going very well.
If you don't already own this book, I highly recommend it!