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" Building reading comprehension habits in grades 6-12 : "
Jeff Zwiers
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BL
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638615
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dltt
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| Main Entry
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Zwiers, Jeff
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| Title & Author
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Building reading comprehension habits in grades 6-12 : : a toolkit of classroom activities /\ Jeff Zwiers
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| Edition Statement
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Second edition
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xiii, 226 pages :: illustrations ;; 28 cm
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9780872075061 (pbk.)
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: 0872075060 (pbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-219) and index
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| Contents
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Part I: Developing instruction using comprehension habits -- A crash course in reading comprehension -- Assessment and instruction that build comprehension habits -- Part II: Six comprehension habits -- Organizing text information by sculpting the main idea and summarizing -- Connecting to background knowledge -- Making inferences and predictions -- Generating and answering questions -- Understanding and remembering word meanings -- Monitoring one's own comprehension -- Part II: Ancillary materials -- Appendix A: Multiple-meaning words -- Appendix B: Prefixes, suffixes, and roots
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| Abstract
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"This book is intended for middle school and high school teachers of social studies, science, English, English-language development, and any other subject with challenging texts and classes with readers who struggle to understand them. The activities are especially meant to help readers who are below grade level to access and organize the content of grade-level texts." - Preface
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Reading (Secondary)
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Reading comprehension
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| Dewey Classification
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428.4071/2
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LB1632.Z95 2010
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