Teaching the Information Generation: Strategies for Helping Primary Readers Understand the Fact-Filled Texts They Encounter Throughout Their School Years (Theory and Practice) [Paperback]

Vicki Benson-Castagna (Author), Vicki Benson Castagna (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0439517826 | ISBN-13: 978-0439517829 | Publication Date: September 1, 2007

With technology, today's students—even young students—have a world of information at their fingertips. However, many lack the skills to access, evaluate, and use information effectively. This book gives K–3 teachers easy-to-implement cognitive strategies for developing those skills, such as identifying facts, interpreting facts, making connections to facts, and building knowledge. The author demonstrates how to model strategies and help students apply them. The result: students become information literate, ready for more challenging reading in the upper grades. For use with Grades K-3.

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About the Author

Over the past two decades, Vicki Benson Castagna has been an elementary classroom teacher, special ed/learning disabilities teacher, elementary principal, and college professor. She is a popular workshop and inservice speaker, working extensively across the nation-and the world. She worked for 10 years in international schools in South America.

Vicki's research and instructional strategies in the area of comprehension have gained national attention. She co-authored, with Carrice Cummins, The Power of Retelling for the Wright Group and developed the company's national workshop on fiction and nonfiction retelling. She received her doctorate from the University of Alabama, where she earned the Outstanding Dissertation Award for the College of Education for her research about beginning teachers in their transition to constructivist teaching. Her current work focuses on helping teachers make fiction and nonfiction text explicit to young readers by using cognitive strategies.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 5 and up
  
• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources (Theory an (September 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0439517826
• ISBN-13: 978-0439517829
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,642,517 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)