If you have dedicated
yourself to producing thoughtful readers who read for meaning,
this is the book you need! Not only is it filled with helpful
lesson ideas, but the arrangement of each chapter follows
a scaffolded approach to help young readers engage and develop
as lifelong readers. Miller shows teachers how to lay out
the entire year.
Included are chapters about schema building, mental images,
inferring, questioning, non-fiction reading, and synthesizing.
The author focuses on one comprehension strategy in each chapter,
including how to introduce it to students AND what children's
books she considers "tried-and-true." At the end
of each chapter, the author includes a list of children's
book titles that all highlight the comprehension strategy
perfectly for young children.