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Constructing Meaning Through Kid-Friendly Comprehension Strategy Instruction

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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.

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.

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.

Teaching is HARD work. And teaching students to think deeply about what they read is one of the hardest skills to teach. This is a very practical and easily implemented guide to accomplishing this difficult task. A fellow teacher had an old copy of this book and I was so impressed that I ordered it on Amazon for myself. I was thrilled with the CD of forms, which saved me the time, frustration, and headaches of getting a perfect copy out of a book using our uncooperative copy machine. We started right away and I am loving watching my students begin to read for greater understanding and blossoming as readers!!!