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Practical Ways to Weave Comprehension Strategies Into Your Content Area Teaching
New From Laura Robb!
Help students read and engage with textbooks, and navigate the special demands of any non-fiction text structure. In this highly practical book, master teacher Laura Robb shares dozens of strategy lessons to use before, during, and after reading. … More >>
Teaching Reading in Social Studies, Science and Math
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#1 by P. Lowder on February 5, 2010 - 10:39 pm
This is a very reader-friendly book. It’s easy style and appealing format will make it a handy resource in the classroom. The material is very practical and especially valuable to a new teacher.
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Mike on February 5, 2010 - 11:55 pm
This is more or less the downmarket version of Kylene DeBeers substantially better “Why Kids Can’t Read”. In this text, Robb repeatedly cites herself and employs a “three part learning framework” that’s so asinine she can’t even seem to keep it straight. Really who would do lesson plans in chunks of beginning/middle/end? It’s silly. No really, that’s her “revolutionary” idea.
Anyway the book is littered with inconsistencies, the strategies do not even match up to the same part of her learning framework throughout the book (for proof check the list on p.58 and compare with the list on p.231 for one example). The strategies themselves are pretty much the same as every other book like this. Not particularly bad, but Vacca & Vacca have a lot more of them (and had some nice graphic organizers) and DeBeers’ text was at least marginally interesting about it.
The worst part is how ridiculously impractical it is. Depth, not breadth is emphasized, which is commendable in principle, but if you taught like this, you’d finish maybe a chapter by the end of June and your kids would be illiterate. It recommends 20-30 minutes for responding to prompts – a 5-7 minutes “Do Now” activity. It’s a hysterically out of touch book by another educrat. If you listen to the time guidelines, prepare to be fired.
Rating: 2 / 5
#3 by A. Young on February 6, 2010 - 2:53 am
The book was in great shape as promised and I have no complaints on shipping.
Rating: 4 / 5
#4 by Cordelia on February 6, 2010 - 4:52 am
It is disappointing that we teach and are taught with such uncreative, mind-numbing texts. If you want to peddle institutionalized, professor-manufacturer’s, buy this, read it, and believe it.
Rating: 2 / 5