Ages 4-6
Starting with Comprehension: Reading Strategies for the Youngest Learners
Andie Cunningham & Ruth Shagoury
It is never too early to start comprehension instruction. In fact, reading begins with ‘meaning making’ and in this practical and illustrated guide the authors have created a reading programme for five- and six-year-olds based on this premise.
Through carefully structured routines and innovative activities, the youngest learners can develop comprehension skills from their first days in school. Even those starting school with little or no alphabet knowledge or children for whom English is a second or additional language have benefited from the concepts outlined here.
In this informative and thought-provoking book, the authors show how emergent readers who are grappling with school culture for the first time and learning to work with classmates who speak a variety of different languages can learn to present their understanding of what they read through writing, talk, movement, and art.
Early primary-aged children are different from readers who know how to decode texts. The authors show how comprehension skills can be nurtured and strengthened even before decoding begins. In this volume they show how meaning making becomes part of community building as children link reading, thinking, and communicating.
Contents
Kindergartens and Tide Pools; Becoming a Community of Readers: A New Language for Learning; Connections and Comprehension: ‘Sprouts Are the Same Colour as Green Power Rangers’; Using Movement, Mind Pictures, and Metaphor to Comprehend; Asking Questions Together; Spiralling Deeper: Determining Importance and Conferring; Standing in the Waves: Synthesizing Information; References
2005 136pp paperback
978-1-57110-396-3
£19.99
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