Full Description
This hands-on text includes a wealth of secondary reading strategies and lesson plans based on the Directed Reading framework developed by the authors.
Contents
1. "If You Are Reading This Book, You Are Exceptional." 2. Content + Reading = The Directed Reading Lesson. 3. Motivation. 4. Tapping/Developing Background of Experience. 5. Concept Development/Vocabulary. 6. Purpose-for-Reading. 7. Silent Reading. 8. Discussion. 9. Re-Reading. 10. Follow-Up. 11. Learning-to-Write and Writing-to-Learn Within the DRL. One Final Check. 12. A Variation of the Directed Reading Lesson: DRTA. 13. Self-Regulated Learning: Independent Application of the DRL. Appendix A-Sample Lesson Plans. Appendix B-Cloze Procedure. Glossary. Bibliography.