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I Read It, but I Don't Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers (平装)
by Cris Tovani , Ellin Oliver Keene
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Reading skills, References, Original books |
| Market price: ¥ 218.00
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¥ 198.00
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MSL rating:
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| MSL Pointer Review:
Reading is a lifelong activity. Cris Tovani has done the amazing job of not only writing a book that is easily readable, but also communicating to parents, teachers, and students alike, the importance of reading comprehension inside and outside of the classroom. |
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-05-15 00:00>
Cris Tovani's book is fabulous! As a reading teacher, it helped me to find ways to help my students understand what they were reading AND to help them understand when they were understanding. It is obvious that the author knows her readers well and is able to help them to read for real purposes and to give them strategies for monitoring their own comprehension. I have read Strategies that Work by Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goodvis as well as Mosaic of Thought by Ellin Keene and Susan Zimmerman. I Read It But I Don't Get It adds to the things I learned about comprehension from these books. Although this book is written about middle school and high school students, I have used many of the ideas in the book with my upper elementary grade students. So many of the issues are the same. Many of my elementary colleagues are also finding this book helpful and have added it to their professional libraries. It also has great insights for content teachers - thoughts for helping students comprehend content reading. I highly recommend it for all teachers. |
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-05-15 00:00>
Tovani's approach to teaching reading to the most reluctant of learners is rather insightful. She does an excellent job of pointing out the assumptions that above-average readers make while reading that are not necessarily a part of the reluctant reader's experience. The only criticism I have of the book is that I had hoped to find ready to use material for the classroom. Instead, I found that while reading, it forced me to re-evaluate my own instructional approach. Ultimately, this is probably a far better thing than any quick fix approach. If you teach inner city kids or kids who come from homes where reading is not the norm, I believe you will find this book most helpful to your overall approach to managing the language arts classroom. |
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B. Kieffer (MSL quote), USA
<2007-05-15 00:00>
Try this book: easily readable, conversational, and inspirational, it develops ways to reach those who do not really understand what they read. There are anecdotal narratives, each with suggestions for techniques to use in the classroom, and these help focus on the problem as well as possible solutions. I would like to see it used in teacher training classes. |
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D. Ellison (MSL quote), USA
<2007-05-15 00:00>
This is one of the most helpful books about teaching struggling readers that I've ever read. The strategies were immediately applicable to my work with learning disabled teenagers, and the book is written in a very clear and conversational style. It's like sitting down for a great discussion with a master reading teacher. Highly recommended. |
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Jonathon Lever (MSL quote), USA
<2007-05-15 00:00>
Chris Tovanni has created a valuable resource for all teachers by providing them with ideas for how to improve reading comprehension in high school students.
The one component that kept me from giving this five stars is that it is geared to English/Reading teachers. What would be a great addition in a second edition would be the inclusion of short example strategies for focusing on a textbook as opposed to literature. Granted any teacher who plans adequately at the minimum would have no problem adapting the strategies to textbooks, but some textbook direct strategies would be nice.
All in all however, this is a resource that as a social studies teacher I reference on a frequent basis. It helps me to develop realistic strategies to implement in the classroom to improve student comprehension. |
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Belle Miller (MSL quote), USA
<2007-05-15 00:00>
Reading comprehension seems to trouble most of us, even at the professional level. As a teacher and struggling young reader herself, Tovani has developed strategies that really work. In seven chapters, Tovani examines in detail, the reasons readers struggle with comprehension, and the strategies she herself has used, to help students overcome various challenges. Divided into three sections, Tovani examines the problems students have with reading. One such phenomenon is the long-standing "fake reading" students have mastered. In the second part Tovani provides strategic tools which teachers may use to help students with their reading comprehension. Over time and with practice, all students can discover the "hidden" meanings bound within various texts. With the provision of background information, self-examination and a stack of sticky notes, only to name a few tools suggested, students are well on their way to discovering not-so-hidden meanings. Tovani even provides for professionals the very templates she uses as comprehension tools for readers! As a future teacher myself, the suggestions found in this book will remain with me. I plan on stocking my room with yellow sticky notes, never to run dry. As students find quotes, sentences and words that they love, are confused by or connect with, they simply write a personal note on the memo, stick it to the page and refer back to it whenever needed. The strategies are easy, fun and make sense. Anyone can become a better reader with the help of this book. I recommend this work to anyone in the field of education, parents, or anyone who simply wants to be a better reader. |
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Diane M. Lawe (MSL quote), USA
<2007-05-15 00:00>
Great book with great ideas. Would love to have the author for a school inservice or training. |
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El Rob (MSL quote), USA
<2007-05-15 00:00>
Having read this book now three times and still gleaning valuable kernels, I can safely say I have never read a more useful, insightful guide into the problems of the language arts class in high school.
Chris Tovani tackles one after another real-world classroom problem with honesty and creativity. If she doesn't have an answer in the moment it is needed, she makes sure she gets it. As an English major preparing to enter the credential program and with barely a semester's worth of classroom experience, I can't say in every instance I would have responded exactly as she does, but what this book provides people like me are well thought-out models for how to go about addressing student's reading needs.
Tovani meets her students where they're at, not holding lofty, unattainable standards over their heads and expecting them to magically perform. She has an uncanny ability to sense what is going wrong with a lesson, then design an appropriate strategy that proves effective, engaging her student's enthusiasm as they learn lessons relevant to their lives.
Of particular interest is Chapter Seven, What do you wonder? I was struck by how different and appealing this approach is, turning the tables on students and relieving them of the burden of 'knowing everything' and instead, getting inside their heads and validating the questioning process every student surely experiences. Tovani deftly turns uncertainty into a vital learning tool, even addressing student cynicism and embracing it as part of the natural process of decoding any text.
Tovani doesn't claim to solve every reading problem she faces, but she does claim -and succeed- in doing her best to make improved reading strategies something every student can profit by. |
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