Improving Comprehension Instruction

Rethinking Research, Theory, and Classroom Practice

Cathy Collins Block, Linda B. Gambrell, and Michael Pressley, editors

This important volume provides a wealth of research-based resources for helping your students better understand the texts they read. Leading scholars review what has been learned over the last decade about effective methods for promoting comprehension and how best to apply these methods across the curriculum and grade levels.

Each chapter focuses on a particular facet of comprehension and presents relevant research, model instructional practices, and steps for improving comprehension in the future.

© 2002 | 444 pp. | ISBN 10: 0-87207-458-7
Copublished with Jossey-Bass

Also of interest:

Teaching Comprehension and Exploring Multiple Literacies

Evidence-Based Reading Instruction

IRA Literacy Study Groups Reading Comprehension Module

Also from Linda Gambrell:

Using Children’s Literature in Preschool