Building Reading Comprehension Habits in Grades 6–12

A Toolkit of Classroom Activities

Jeff Zwiers

“A wonderful and practical workbook full of teacher-tested activities.”
— Professionally Speaking: The Magazine of the Ontario College of Teachers

Help struggling readers understand content area texts with research-based, innovative classroom tools that foster lifelong reading comprehension habits. This book presents easy-to-use activities organized around six habits of reading comprehension:

Organizing text information by sculpting the main idea and summarizing

Connecting to background knowledge

Making inferences and predictions

Generating and answering questions

Understanding and remembering word meanings

Monitoring one’s own comprehension

The activities include reproducible forms and variations to help English-language learners, struggling readers, and other students who need extra support. Additional resources in the appendixes will assist you in using the activities in the classroom.

An IRA Book Club selection, March 2004

© 2004 | 224 pp.
ISBN 10: 0-87207-539-7 | ISBN 13: 978-0-87207-539-9

Also of interest:

Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning (third edition)

In a Reading State of Mind

Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning

Comprehension Strategies for Middle Grade Learners

Prereading Activities for Content Area Reading and Learning

Also from Jeff Zwiers:

Building Academic Language

Developing Academic Thinking Skills in Grades 6–12