Cognitive Strategy Instruction That Really Improves Children's Academic Performance
This completely rewritten and updated second edition presents the cognitive strategies empirically shown to improve competence in the elementary and middle school skills and content areas - decoding, reading comprehension, vocabulary, spelling, writing, science and mathematics. The expanded coverage includes a new chapter on strategies related to teaching science, and strategies to learn specific, often unconnected facts. Each chapter succinctly describes current validated teaching and...
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Presenst strategies to improve competence in the academic skill and content areas, such as decoding, spelling, writing, science and mathematics. For elementary and middle schools.
Series PrefaceForeword to the Second EditionAuthors' PrefaceCh. 1Introduction to Cognitive Strategy Instruction1Ch. 2Decoding and the Beginnings of Reading19Ch. 3Reading Comprehension Strategies57Ch. 4Vocabulary101Ch. 5Spelling116Ch. 6Writing153Ch. 7Mathematical Problem Solving184Ch. 8Science213Ch. 9Learning Facts: The Value of Always Asking Yourself Why And Other Mnemonic Strategies234Ch. 10Getting Started Teaching Strategies244Appendix: Additional Sources of Information About Strategies254Author Index257Subject Index261About the Authors265
