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Super Six Comprehension Strategies: 35 Lessons and More for Reading Success
by Lori Oczkus
Publisher: Christopher-Gordon Publishers, Inc.
1420 Providence Highway, Suite 120
Norwood, MA 02062
Tel: 1-781-762-5577
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ISBN-10: 192902469X
ISBN-13: 978-1929024698
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What educators are saying about Super Six Comprehension Strategies
"Lori Oczkus has written a marvelous book for teachers. Super Six Comprehension Strategies is the right book at the right time."
P.David Pearson, Dean of Graduate School of Education University of California, Berkeley
Finally! A truly hands-on resource that helps you achieve reading success with all of the students in your classroom - no matter what their reading level is, no matter how well they comprehend now, and no matter how motivated they are to read - all while helping you meet the added pressure for achieving standards and raising test scores!
This resource shows you how to improve reading comprehension by applying proven teaching strategies commonly known as the "good reader" research (Pearson et al.). The strategies, which Oczkus refers to as the "Super Six," include Building Background and Making Connections; Predicting/Inferring; Questioning; Monitoring; Summarizing/Synthesizing, and Evaluating.You see how to bring the "Super Six" to your students through motivating lessons you can use with any materials.