Moreillon, a veteran teacher-librarian, updates Collaborative Strategies for Teaching Reading Comprehension to draw on cutting-edge research in instructional strategies, offering a clear, rigorous roadmap to teaching reading comprehension in a proven collaborative process.

Presents a collection of collaborative strategies for classroom teachers and librarians designed to help improve students' reading comprehension.

A new and updated edition of this practical resource that answers the many questions teachers have about how to improve student reading comprehension.Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies is a step-by-step guide based on the latest reading comprehension research and is the result of Sheena Cameron's learning journey into research-based practice and her extensive experience teaching in classrooms.This resource includes relevant new research and information and explains how it impacts on improving comprehension. There is guidance on how to introduce and teach each strategy, and how it fits into your literacy programme, including:- an explanation of the strategy and how it supports comprehension- the language we use when using a strategy- guided and independent student activities that support teaching the strategy.An extensive range of new teacher and student-friendly support material, including new activities, blackline masters, posters and a strategy icons package, is available digitally from the eBook. This resource is suitable for primary/elementary and intermediate/middle school teachers.

This practical book grows out of a recent report written by the RAND Reading Study Group (RRSG), which proposed a national research agenda in the area of reading comprehension. Here, RRSG members have expanded on their findings and translated them into clear recommendations to inform practice. Teachers gain the latest knowledge about how students learn to comprehend texts and what can be done to improve the quality of instruction in this essential domain. From leading literacy scholars, the book explains research-based ways to: *Plan effective instruction for students at all grade levels *Meet the comprehension needs of English-language learners *Promote adolescents' comprehension of subject-area texts *Understand the complexities of comprehension assessment *Get optimal benefits from instructional technologies *And much more!

Librarians, inservice teachers, and preservice teachers will discover that Reading Comprehension: Books and Strategies for the Elementary Curriculum provides easy access to a variety of reading comprehension strategies framed in the context of their curriculum content. By including current children's literature on a variety of topics, this book also serves to introduce librarians and teachers to trade books for enhancing their content area curriculum.

Once considered designated storytellers, modern library professionals are emerging as experts in technology integration, information literacy, and curriculum alignment. Though, their collaboration with technology specialists and administrators continues to be a struggle. Collaborative Models for Librarian and Teacher Partnerships brings together best practices and innovative technological approaches in establishing the media specialist-teacher partnership. Highlighting theoretical concepts of case based learning, knowledge repositories, and professional learning communities; this book is an essential practical guide for professional development specialists, administrators, library media specialists, as well as teacher educators interested in maintaining and developing collaborative instructional partnerships using emerging digital technologies.

This book has been replaced by Teaching Reading Comprehension to Students with Learning Difficulties, Third Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-5479-9.