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Improving Comprehension with Questioning the Author: A Fresh and Expanded View of a Powerful Approach (Theory and Practice)

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If you are serious and passionate about teaching literacy, you won't be disappointed when you add this book to your collection of professional resources. You will learn how to facilitate dialogue among your students with "queries" during reading. Students will learn to think beyond the text with both narrative and informational genres. These are the same outstanding authors who have published Bringing Words to Life as well as their recent book about Robust Vocabulary Instruction which I also highly recommend.

The writing is somewhat dry in places, but the questiong techinques have really impacted my 7th grade classroom. We are reading a novel right now, and I stop frequently to engage the class in discussion, which they quickly take over. Comprehension has increased, critical thinking levels are rising, and the kids are doing most of the work! Thanks for the recommendaton Phylis Whitley!

For a Teacher who would like to find a better way of reaching their students and having them learn and retain more this is the book for you.