Effective comprehension instruction: teaching, tone and assessment
Tools for active literacy: the nuts and bolts of comprehension instruction
Text matters: choice makes a difference
Monitoring comprehension: the inner conversation
Activating and connecting to background knowledge: a bridge from the new to the known
Questioning: the strategy that propels readers forward
Visualizing and inferring: making what's implicit explicit
Determining importance in text: the nonfiction connection
Summarizing and synthesizing information: the evolution of thought
Content literacy: reading for understanding in social studies and science
Topic studies: a framework for research and exploration
Reading to understand textbooks
The genre of test reading
Appendix A: great books for teaching content in history, social studies, science, music, art, and literacy
Appendix B: magazines, newspapers, and websites
Appendix C: professional journals for selection of children's books
Appendix D: assessment interview with fourth graders
Appendix E: anchor charts for the comprehension strategies.
