Intro -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: What Is Reading? What Is Reading Comprehension? -- You’re the Expert -- At Your Fingertips -- Reading and Reading Comprehension -- Three-Level Taxonomy of Comprehension -- Transformational Model of Comprehension -- A Processing Definition of Reading -- Chapter 2: Engaging Student Interest -- You’re the Expert -- At Your Fingertips -- Learning and Knowledge Goals -- Real-World Interaction -- Interesting Texts -- Autonomy Support -- Strategy Instruction -- Collaboration Support -- Evaluation -- 10 Cool Ways to Engage Students’ Interest in Reading -- Chapter 3: What Do Proficient Readers Do? -- You’re the Expert -- Proficient Readers Use Existing Knowledge to Make Sense of New Information -- Proficient Readers Ask Questions About the Text Before, During, and After Reading -- Proficient Readers Draw Inferences from the Text -- Proficient Readers Monitor Their Comprehension -- Proficient Readers Use “Fix-Up” Strategies When Meaning Breaks Down -- Proficient Readers Figure Out What Is Most Important in Whatever They Read -- At Your Fingertips -- Proficient Readers Synthesize Information to Create New Thinking -- Some Observable Habits of Proficient Readers -- Chapter 4: Identifying Difficulties in Reading Comprehension -- You’re the Expert -- At Your Fingertips -- Teacher-Directed Assessment of Comprehension -- Word Recognition as a Source of Comprehension Difficulty -- Fluency as a Source of Comprehension Difficulty -- Vocabulary and Comprehension Concerns as Sources of Comprehension Problems -- Tools for Measuring Word-Recognition Accuracy, Automaticity, and Prosody in Oral Reading -- Chapter 5: How to Differentiate Instruction for Student Comprehension -- At Your Fingertips -- Readiness -- Interests -- Profile of Learning -- Environment -- You’re the Expert -- Content -- Activities (Process) -- Product -- Dare to Differentiate: 50 Terrific Teacher Tools and Ideas -- Differentiation Songs & Dances -- Chapter 6: Comprehension Strategies -- You’re the Expert -- How and Why We Explicitly Teach Comprehension Strategies -- At Your Fingertips -- Using Background Knowledge -- Reciprocal Teaching -- Questioning -- Visualizing -- Inferring -- Summarizing -- Getting to Know Types of Expository Text Structures -- Chapter 7: Comprehension Strategies for Before Reading -- You’re the Expert -- At Your Fingertips -- Activating Students’ Prior Knowledge -- Building Students’ Background Knowledge -- Determining Purpose for Reading -- Understanding Elements and Structure of Texts -- Working with Words -- Some General Tips Before Reading -- Chapter 8: Comprehension Strategies for During Reading -- You’re the Expert -- At Your Fingertips -- Helping Students Become Involved with Text -- Building Comprehension Through Questioning -- Monitoring Comprehension -- Making Inferences -- What Do Good Readers Do as They Read? -- Chapter 9: Comprehension Strategies for After Reading -- You’re the Expert -- At Your Fingertips -- Post-Reading Discussions -- Text-to-Self Connections -- Text-to-Text Connections -- Text-to-World Connections -- Compare and Contrast -- Written Response—Summaries, Syntheses, Essays, and More -- Other Transformations -- Digging Deep After Reading -- References Cited -- .
