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Spotlight on Comprehension
Building a Literacy of Thoughtfulness
Linda Hoyt
ISBN 978-0-325-00719-9 / 0-325-00719-5 / 2004 / 560pp / Paperback
Imprint: Heinemann
Availability: In Stock
Grade Level: K-6
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Spotlight on Comprehension presents a tapestry of short, highly practical essays loaded with ready to use strategies for teaching reading comprehension and assessing understanding. Hoyt and an All-Star ensemble of contributors—including Ellin Keene, Tony Stead, Nell Duke, Franki Sibberson, Mike Opitz, David and Yvonne Freeman, Adria Klein, Mary Lee Hahn and Gretchen Owocki—cover the spectrum of comprehension instruction, addressing topics like:
- implementing the latest research on reading comprehension into your instruction
- improving children's comprehension strategies, especially questioning, inferring, and summarizing
- helping emerging, developing, and second language readers improve their comprehension
- using writing to build reading comprehension
- tackling a range of texts and genres across the curriculum, including standardized tests
- building a robust vocabulary
- organizing instruction around guided reading, the read aloud, and independent reading.
Best yet, Hoyt and her expert contributors include handy tools like checklists, sample lesson plans, book lists, strategy lists, assessment rubrics, and learning extensions that will help you take their ideas and use them in your own classroom immediately. Each chapter even includes Key Questions designed to stimulate personal reflection and support professional conversations or book-study groups. Read Spotlight on Comprehension—in short segments, or all at once; by yourself, or with friends and colleagues—and gather a wealth of strategies for building a literacy of thoughtfulness which will empower your students to get the most meaning from the varied texts of our world.
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Table of Contents
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Laying the Groundwork for Effective Instruction Featuring 6 essays from: |
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Linda Hoyt – Nell Duke & Julia Reynolds – Ellen Keene – Dona Mcllvain – Kevlynn Annandale |
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Crafting Environments That Foster Comprehension Featuring 5 essays from:
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Linda Hoyt – Kathleen Francescani – Jane Rambo – Marge Collins – Marion Odell & Susanne Scott – Susan Bennett–Armistead |
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Comprehending Strategically: Questioning, Inferring, Summarizing
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Alison Maloney – Joy Scurlock – Linda Hoyt – Frank Sibberson – Judy Wallis |
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Getting at Language: Words, Writing, and Reading Like a Writer Featuring 7 essays from: |
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LindaHoyt – Molly House – Mary Monroe – Pat Adkisson & Joyce Price – Marissa Ochoa |
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Comprehension Instruction: Read Alouds, Guided Reading and Independent Reading
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Featuring 7 essays from:
Theresa Therriault – Michael Opitz & Matthew Zbaracki – Linda Hoyt – Tony Stead – Jane Rambo – Carol Updegraff – Staci Monreal & Jennifer White |
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Tackling Texts (and Tests) Across the Curriculum Featuring 10 essays from: |
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Linda Hoyt – Jodi Synder – Marlee Wright – Rachel Jordan – Mary Lee Hahn – Barbara Coleman – Cathy Bernhard – Cathy Tower – Barbara Coleman |
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Understanding Comprehension and the Emergent Reader Featuring 6 essays from: |
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Linda Hoyt – Gretchen Owocki & Camille Cammack – Carol Imus – Jill Hauser – CateHill – Karen Lokting |
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Supporting Comprehension For ELL Learners Featuring 5 essays from: |
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Jan McCall – Yvonne & David Freeman – Alicia Bolt – Denise Rea & Sandra Mercuri – Leslie Barkley |
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Considering Instruction That Works Featuring 5 essays from: |
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Teresa Therriault – Amy Goodman – Kelli Kessler – Adria Klein – Bruce Morgan |
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Linda Hoyt
Books
- Revisit, Reflect, Retell, Updated Edition: Time-Tested Strategies for Teaching Reading Comprehension (Paperback + DVD + CD)
- Interactive Read-Alouds, Grades 4-5: Linking Standards, Fluency, and Comprehension (Book of Lessons + Teacher's Guide + CD-ROM)
- Interactive Read-Alouds, Grades 2-3: Linking Standards, Fluency, and Comprehension (Book of Lessons + Teacher's Guide + CD-ROM)
- Snapshots The DVD (DVD)
- Navigating Informational Texts DVD Set: Easy and Explicit Strategies, K-5 (DVD Set)
- Interactive Read-Alouds, Grades K-1: Linking Standards, Fluency, and Comprehension (Paperback + CD)
- Interactive Read-Alouds series bundle: Grades K-1, 2-3, 4-5 (Product Bundle)
- Spotlight on Comprehension: Building a Literacy of Thoughtfulness (Paperback)
- Navigating Informational Texts: Easy and Explicit Strategies, K-5 (3 Videos + Viewing Guide)
- Exploring Informational Texts: From Theory to Practice (Paperback)
- Make It Real: Strategies for Success with Informational Texts (Paperback)
- Snapshots: The Video (Video)
- Snapshots: Literacy Minilessons Up Close (Paperback)
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