It's critical! : Classroom strategies for promoting critical and creative comprehension

Booth, David W. (David Wallace), 1938-2018.

Book 2008

This practical book shows teachers how to plan literacy events that recognize and interpret the factors that readers and writers bring to the text. It offers successful strategies for becoming caring mentors who support and encourage students as they explore a variety of text forms -- from poems to novels, from speeches to blogs, from art to invention. Based on extensive classroom experience, the book shows you how to engage students in brainstor...

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ISBN:

9781551382289

Description:

160 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Notes:

Includes index
Includes bibliographical references: pages 153-155

Contents:

"Just tell me what it means!"
Strategies for promoting deep understanding
Deepening text understanding through book talk
Deepening understanding through graphic texts
Deepening understanding through text sets
Seepening understanding through storytelling
Deepening understanding through writing
Deepening understanding through inquiry
Deepening understanding through the arts
Deepening understanding through media

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3044967

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