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Reading Detective B1: Using Higher-Order Thinking to Improve Reading Comprehension


Reading Detective’s standards-based critical thinking activities develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills students need for exceptional reading comprehension. The activities are especial… More >>

Reading Detective B1: Using Higher-Order Thinking to Improve Reading Comprehension

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Improve Your Reading

  • ISBN13: 9781401889159
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No gimmicky speed-reading method, Improve Your Reading presents a practical way to increase what an individual learns from texts, notes, and resources. It’s not how much or how fast one can read that matters, but how much one can understand and remember. Whether reading texts or their own notes, the reader will learn effective reading comprehension skills required for success in high school, college, and throughout life…. More >>

Improve Your Reading

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Interactive Think-Aloud Lessons: 25 Surefire Ways to Engage Students and Improve Comprehension

  • ISBN13: 9780545102797
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In Interactive Think-Aloud Lessons, you will find a wealth of exciting classroom-tested lessons that will aid you in teaching the comprehension strategies–connect, predict/infer, question, summarize, monitor/clarify, and evaluate–through a variety of modalities. Interactive think alouds engage students during the modeling phase of the lesson with gestures to cue the strategies and clever characters and metaphors that students can relate to the strategies. The DVD … More >>

Interactive Think-Aloud Lessons: 25 Surefire Ways to Engage Students and Improve Comprehension

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Schools for Sale: Why Free Market Policies Won’t Improve America’s Schools, and What Will


In Schools for Sale, author Ernest House debunks the myth that economic productivity should shape educational policy and practice. House conclusively illustrates that the attempts by the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations to reshape the school to make “productive workers” ignore how schools work and how students learn, and in the end are doomed to failure. Politically driven proposals for vouchers and privatization and increased calls for accountability and s… More >>

Schools for Sale: Why Free Market Policies Won’t Improve America’s Schools, and What Will

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How to Meet Standards, Motivate Students, and Still Enjoy Teaching!: Four Practices That Improve Student Learning

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Emphasizes following a standards-based curriculum while creating a community of learners, making reflection routine, teaching content and process, and developing authentic tasks and assessments…. More >>

How to Meet Standards, Motivate Students, and Still Enjoy Teaching!: Four Practices That Improve Student Learning

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