Comprehension Connections by Tanny Mcgregor

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Comprehension Connections by Tanny Mcgregor

Inferring, questioning, determining importance. It's not easy to explain these abstract reading strategies to elementary readers, yet knowing how they work and how to use them is an important first step to connecting with texts. Fortunately Tanny McGregor has developed visual, tangible, everyday lessons that make abstract thinking concrete and that can help every child in your classroom make more effective use of reading comprehension strategies.

Comprehension Connectionsis a guide to developing children's ability to fully understand texts by making the comprehension process achievable, accessible, and incremental. McGregor's approach sequences stages of learning for each strategy that take students from a fun object lesson to a nuanced and lasting understanding. Her lessons build bridges between the concrete and the abstract by incorporating writing, discussion, song, art, and movement into a web of creative connections that reinforce each strategy on a variety of levels. All the while Comprehension Connections offers an inside look at the dynamic of McGregor's teaching, showing you how her ideas look in action, and including the language she uses and that she encourages her students to use as they build their facility with:

schema
inferring
questioning
determining importance
visualizing
synthesizing.

Many students struggle to understand what it is they are supposed to do as they learn to read strategically. Help them make connections to the ideas behind reading and watch as your readers go deeper into texts than ever before.

Tanny McGregor, an internationally recognized instructor and conference speaker, provides over 30 years of experience to her popular seminars. Her classes are noted for being innovative and fun. Tanny worked as a literacy coach, gifted intervention specialist, and preK-12 staff developer before becoming an elementary school teacher. Comprehension Connections (Heinemann, 2007), Genre Connections (Heinemann, 2013), and her most recent release, Ink & Ideas (Heinemann, 2018), are her three books. Tanny also contributed to Heinemann's seminal study, Comprehension Moving Ahead (2011).

Tanny works as a special assignment teacher for West Clermont Schools in Cincinnati, Ohio, in addition to writing and consulting. Miles and she have four daughters and two grandchildren. @TannyMcG is her Twitter handle.

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ISBN 13	9780325008875
ISBN 10	0325008876
Title	Comprehension Connections
Author	Tanny Mcgregor
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Heinemann USA
Year published	2007-02-07
Number of pages	143
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