Teaching Comprehension in the Elementary Years: Annotated Bibliography

Block, C. C. Teaching Comprehension: The Comprehension Process Approach. Boston,

This informative text provides explicit reading comprehension lesson plans and activities based best practices. The author includes detail lesson plans correlating common core curriculum. These lesson plans can be implemented in all grade levels and with various reading ability levels. The author addresses how to use technology in the 21st century classrooms, to improve comprehension instruction in it, to improve comprehension instruction in Kindergarten - Twelfth grade.

Casey, J. M. (2000). Creating the Early Literacy Classroom: Activities for Using

Technogy to Empower Elementary Students Englewood: Libraries Unlimited.

This handbook provides teachers with activities to help young students

become successful readers and writers. These activities are designed to

motivate even your most reluctant students to become better readers

and writers. The author provides teacher with the how to's in setting

up an interactive learning environment focusing on activities to bring out

the creative natural in all students . These activities are written with

various reading and writing academic levels in mind.

Cunningham, A., & Shagoury, R. (2005). Starting with Comprehensio: Reading

Strategies for the Youngest Learners. Sternhouse Publishers.

This book provides the readers with information on how to adapt

comprehension strategies for preschool and kindergarten students. The

connect and adjust key compontents fro master teachers like Debbie Miller

and builds on her first and second grade reading strategies. These

strategies include making inferences, summarizing, questioning,

predicting and story r...

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...ack, R. l. (2005). Teaching Literacy in Second Grade. New York:

Guilford Press.

Shanahan, T., Callison, K., Carriere, C., Duke, N. K., Pearson, P. D., & Torgessen, C. S. (2010).

Improving Reading Comprehension in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade: A Practice

Guide. National Center for Education Evaluation and Reginal Assistance Institute.

Washington, DC: Whatworks.ed.gov/publications/practice guides.

Tyner, B. From Small Group Reading Instruction: A Differentiated Teaching Model for

Beginning and Struggling Readers (Second Edition ed ed.). International Reading

Association.

Virginia PALS. (2007). Virginia Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening. Retrieved 2014,

from Virginia PALS: http://va.pals.virginia.edu/

Webber, D., & Shropshire, S. (2001). The Kid's Book Club: Lively Reading Activities for Grades

1-3. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited.