Comprehension Connections: Bridges to Strategic Reading,   ISBN:9780325008875

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This is one of the best books for teaching comprehension strategies I have ever read. The author takes all six strategies and introduces them using concrete materials. I have given this book to several teacher friends and they love it. Many kudos and thanks to Tanny McGregor for writing such a helpful and insightful book.

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I think I have mentioned Comprehension Connections: Bridges to Strategic Reading by Tanny McGregor before, but it is an invaluable tool for any language arts teacher! Today I used one of the lesson suggestions for inference and it was a huge success!

I brought in a bag of "trash" that I told my kids I took from my weird neighbor's porch. I really do have a weird neighbor, who I know very little about, so I described him. Then I told them we would be inferring information about him based on the items in his garbage. The kids had a BALL with it! By the end of the activity they were concerned for my safety based on what the inferred. It was great!

In their independent reading, they are now working on an inference chart, making inferences about the main character in their novels and citing the evidence to back them up. So far it's going very well.
If you don't already own this book, I highly recommend it!

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I loved this book! I have used it in my classroom in my second grade classroom for over a year now. The book is a quick read and easy to use. Tanny has totally changed the way I teach comprehension. I would HIGHLY suggest that every teacher who teaches comprehension strategies to their students read this book.

I received a huge compliment with regard to reading from a fellow second grade teacher whose daughter is in my classroom this year because of the book. One afternoon after school she came into my classroom and said "Keep up whatever you are doing because Sally comes home and tells me everything you are doing in class!She couldn't wait to tell me about the latest lesson you taught about garbage and inferring."

My students love the activities and the experiences help them relate to the comprehension strategies in a concrete way. This book will change the way you teach, you have to read it!

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This book is wonderful because it gives concert lessons to teach abstract ideas. I'm currently doing a book study at school and the teachers absolutely love it. They are trying lessons each week and raving about the results. Great purchase! I also like this book because a variety of grade levels can use these strategies.

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This is an excellent book. Very easy to read with some great ideas for activities that you can immediately implement in your classroom with little preparation.