Active Readers (Upper Primary)
Tools and strategies for comprehension
Teacher resource
9781863666688 | 2008
64 pp book
$34.95
Year level
Active Readers celebrates individuals and the unique way they connect with the text, share their understandings and explore unfamiliar territory to become competent, confident, critical readers.
This series of three books for lower, middle and upper primary provides an overview of comprehension, six key comprehension strategies and resources to invite discussion and engage students in active reading behaviours.
Each book features text explorations grouped under the six key comprehensions strategies: prediction/prior knowledge, think aloud, text structure and features, questioning, visualising and summarising. The explorations are designed to suit shared, guided and independent reading and are each accompanied by a planning guide and a graphic organiser. The graphic organisers can be interchanged amoung the text explorations, creating hundreds of possibilites for investigating comprehension.
This versatile comprehension series is a resource that will be readily absorbed into everyday classroom practice.