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Collaborative Strategies for Teaching Reading Comprehension: Maximizing Your Impact
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| Judi Moreillon |
| Item Number: 978-0-8389-0929-4 |
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| Publisher: ALA Editions |
| Price: $42.00 |
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170 pages
8.5" x 11"
Softcover
ISBN-13: 978-0-8389-0929-4
Year Published: 2006
AP Categories: A, H, I
Research shows that collaboration between classroom teachers and teacher-librarians improves overall effectiveness in increasing students’ reading comprehension. Standardized testing and No Child Left Behind (NCLB) add urgency to the issue.
Time-strapped educators wonder whether partnering with teacher-librarians will realistically improve students’ scores. Drawing on cutting edge research in instructional strategies, Moreillon, a veteran teacher-librarian, offers a clear, rigorous roadmap to the task of teaching reading comprehension in a proven collaborative process.
Collaborative Strategies for Teaching Reading Comprehension is packed with practical applications to
Streamline the co-teaching lesson-planning process
Encourage collaboration with a flexible design and delivery framework
Strengthen partnering techniques to improve reading comprehension
Address three levels of literacy development
Identify seven strategies that students use to read for meaning
Connect with research-driven teaching practices that incorporate library programs
Increase reading scores and lower the student-teacher ratios using proven collaborative approaches
The seven strategies for enhancing reading comprehension, each with graphic organizers and three sample lesson plans, include: providing background knowledge; visualizing; questioning; predicting; determining main ideas; utilizing fix-up strategies; and synthesizing.
In a national drive to improve test scores and build a nation of readers, these are proven teamwork tools to accomplish both goals.
Visit the companion site for this book at Collaborative Strategies for Teaching Reading Comprehension: Web Extra
About the Author
Judi Moreillon, Ph.D. is a literacy and library consultant who serves as adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Language, Reading, and Culture and in the School of Information Resources and Library Science at the University of Arizona at Tucson. During a 12-year career as teacher-librarian, she collaborated with classroom teachers, specialists, and principals to integrate literature and information literacy into the classroom curriculum. Her original research on the media and literacy informs this book.
Reviews
"Different plans address the needs of readers at the emerging, advancing, and advanced levels by presenting specific book titles and encouraging student participation."
--SciTech Book News
"All elementary teacher-librarians, regardless of years of experience, will find much useful information in this book."
--Booklist
"Bravo to Judi Moreillon for emphasizing the teacher part of teacher-librarian, for providing a practical guide for effective collaborative teaching, and for helping teacher-librarians assume a leadership role in their school's literacy efforts."
--Teacher Librarian |
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