Reading for Information in Elementary School: Content Literacy Strategies to Build Comprehension was written to give k-5 teachers the tools they need to lay an educational groundwork that promotes students' success with informational text from the early grades. Packed with research-based, classroom-proven strategies, the text follows a before, during, and after reading format that models the most effective approach to reading for information, focusing on the processes required to develop content literacy. You'll meet the teachers, sit in on their lessons, witness their students' responses, and come away from this text with a model for teaching your students to read successfully for information and a handbook of proven strategies to implement.
Chapter 1 Reading for Information in the Elementary School
Chapter 2 Conversations for Learning: Classroom and School Structures that Support Reading for Information
Chapter 3 Attention Getters: Anticipatory Activities
Chapter 4 Word for Word: Vocabulary Development Across the Curriculum
Chapter 5 Read-Alouds and Shared Readings
Chapter 6 Questions, Questions, Everywhere
Chapter 7 Picture This: Graphic Organizers
Chapter 8 Structured Note-Taking and Note-Making
Chapter 9 Writing to Learn
Chapter 10 Measurement Growth: Assessment and Testing
