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Publication date:
16 February 2011Length of book:
124 pagesPublisher
R&L EducationISBN-13: 9781610480048
Literacy continues to be a hot topic for educators and parents. I Don't Get It! Helping Students Understand What They Read is a practical, easy-to-use resource for classroom teachers and literacy coaches. Parents will also find the information helpful as they assist their children with homework and support for reading comprehension. This book will help to improve student literacy by offering a variety of strategies designed to help students think as they read printed text. All have been carefully considered for ease of use, utility in terms of differentiation, and simplicity of format. The author evaluates each strategy according to Bloom's Taxonomy and provides suggestions for adaptation through the use of technology. Providing practical, effective and research-based strategies designed to help students read, understand, and remember challenging material, the book can be read cover to cover, 'on the run,' or as a resource in response to a specific, expressed need by teaching staff.
This down-to-earth approach presents “real life” examples of teaching vocabulary, comprehension and study skills at the secondary level with a hope for assisting teachers. The Vocabulary and Comprehension chapters are good resources of strategies for teaching these skills. They are backed up by research, defined by technique, and identified via Bloom. These can be very useful to the beginning teacher or teacher struggling to think of new ways to plan lessons. I see this as a type of “dictionary” or “handbook” for strategies.