Weaving Through Words

Using the Arts to Teach Reading Comprehension Strategies

Roberta D. Mantione and Sabine Smead

Find out how you can unite the arts and reading to strengthen your students’ understanding of text. This rich resource provides detailed explanations of six comprehension strategies:

Developing sensory images

Building and activating schema

Questioning

Determining importance

Inferring

Synthesis

The authors shows how to incorporate these strategies into arts lessons and assess students’ learning. Appendixes include a matrix for implementing lessons and an array of other reading- and arts-related tools.

An IRA Book Club selection, December 2002

© 2003 | 216 pp.
ISBN 10: 0-87207-456-0 | ISBN 13: 978-0-87207-456-9

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A Comprehensive Guide to Readers Theatre

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IRA Literacy Study Groups Reading Comprehension Module