Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning

About this book

Educators across all content areas have turned to Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning for almost two decades. The fourth edition delivers rich practical and research-based strategies that readers have found invaluable in todays classrooms. Author Doug Buehl has written all-new chapters that focus on the instructional shifts taking place as the Common Core State Standards are implemented across the United States. These introductory chapters will help you do the following: Understand research based comprehension strategies for content classrooms Tap into students background knowledge to build upon and enhance comprehension of complex texts Teach students how to question a text Teach reading and thinking through a disciplinary lens At the heart of this edition are more than 40 classroom strategies with variations and strategy indexes that identify the instructional focus of each strategy pinpoint the text frames in play as students read and learn and correlate students comprehension processes. In addition each strategy is cross-referenced with the Common Cores reading writing speaking/listening and language standards.