Barnes & Noble Making Deep Sense of informational Texts: A Framework for Strengthening Comprehension Grades 6-12 (Mastering complex texts) at Hamilton Place in Chattanooga, TN
Author Gwen J. Pauloski introduces four flexible adolescent literacy practices that help secondary students make deeper sense of the complex informational texts they encounter in school and beyond. Adolescent readers learn age-appropriate comprehension strategies and practice applying them as they discuss, analyze, and write about their reading. The author offers strategy learning guides, lesson examples, and planning templates for teachers.Grades 6-12 teachers, reading specialists, and instructional coaches can use this book to: Employ research-based strategies to help students actively engage with informational texts Teach students to identify and assess integral arguments, perspectives, and rhetoric Challenge students to reconstruct what they learn from a reading in their own words Encourage students' active participation in text-centered class discussions Increase students' motivation and competence when approaching complex texts Contents:Part 1: The Case for the Deep Sense ApproachChapter 1: Why and How Secondary Students Resist Reading Info-TextsChapter 2: A Strategic Approach to Improving ComprehensionPart 2: Teaching the Deep Sense ApproachChapter 3: Helping Adolescents Regain Their Reading ConfidenceChapter 4: Strategy Instruction That WorksChapter 5: Leading Text-Centered DiscussionsChapter 6: Reinforcing Strategies With Shared Info-Text Studies (SITS)Part 3: The Deep Sense Approach StrategiesChapter 7: Focus on Meaning MakingChapter 8: Prepare to ReadChapter 9: Read ActivelyChapter 10: Evaluate Arguments and EvidenceChapter 11: Consolidate LearningAppendix AAppendix BReferences and ResourcesIndex
Author Gwen J. Pauloski introduces four flexible adolescent literacy practices that help secondary students make deeper sense of the complex informational texts they encounter in school and beyond. Adolescent readers learn age-appropriate comprehension strategies and practice applying them as they discuss, analyze, and write about their reading. The author offers strategy learning guides, lesson examples, and planning templates for teachers.Grades 6-12 teachers, reading specialists, and instructional coaches can use this book to: Employ research-based strategies to help students actively engage with informational texts Teach students to identify and assess integral arguments, perspectives, and rhetoric Challenge students to reconstruct what they learn from a reading in their own words Encourage students' active participation in text-centered class discussions Increase students' motivation and competence when approaching complex texts Contents:Part 1: The Case for the Deep Sense ApproachChapter 1: Why and How Secondary Students Resist Reading Info-TextsChapter 2: A Strategic Approach to Improving ComprehensionPart 2: Teaching the Deep Sense ApproachChapter 3: Helping Adolescents Regain Their Reading ConfidenceChapter 4: Strategy Instruction That WorksChapter 5: Leading Text-Centered DiscussionsChapter 6: Reinforcing Strategies With Shared Info-Text Studies (SITS)Part 3: The Deep Sense Approach StrategiesChapter 7: Focus on Meaning MakingChapter 8: Prepare to ReadChapter 9: Read ActivelyChapter 10: Evaluate Arguments and EvidenceChapter 11: Consolidate LearningAppendix AAppendix BReferences and ResourcesIndex
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