Reading With Meaning: Teaching Comprehension in the Primary Grades

I's so glad that reading is being looked at as more than just being able to 'say the words on the page.' This book has great strategies and activities to teach children the meaning of what they read. Add to this two fabulous literature books written by two teachers. They include a 10-page parent/teacher guide that shows how to teach these all important skills using delightful stories that will be enjoyed by kids.Check them out...Life's Little Lessons: An Inch-By-Inch Tale of Success and The Big Squeal: A Wild, True, and Twisted Tail

This is book is Strategies that Work for the k-2. I love this book. I find something new and challenging for myself as a teacher, everytime I open it. Great chapter on literature circles for primary students. Must-have book!

In this book, Debbie Miller leads the reader through a year in her classroom. I use it daily in order to focus my thoughts as I teach in a reading workshop structure. Even though I teach third grade and Debbie wrote from the perspective of a first grade teacher, her common sense yet highly sensitive approach to teaching reading empowers me to lead my students through a year of discovery. With her thoughts and strategies running through my mind influencing my lesson planning, my students rediscover themselves as readers. This book is a valuable resource for anyone teaching reading in the early elementary grades.

This was a great book for those interested in teaching first graders how to comprehend their reading. It is full of strategies and systems that can be adapted to all grade levels. Easy, quick read.

Teaching young children to think and especially think about what they read is so important. Too often children read words with no idea about what they are reading. As a teacher I constantly use children's literature to teach comprehension. Two of my favorites are:Life's Little Lessons: An Inch-By-Inch Tale of Success and The Big Squeal: A Wild, True, and Twisted Tailwhich not only have fabulous messages but a great teaching guide. I recommend these very highly to my parents because of these guides. Start young teaching kids to understand what they read!