I Read It, but I Don't Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers,   ISBN:9781571100894

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This book provides excellent strategies and insights for instructing struggling adolescent readers. Gives real-world examples from the author as well as mutliple techniques to use in the classroom or even to teach your own child better reading strategies.

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This book changed the way I teach on a daily basis. As an 11th grade US history teacher in the Bronx, I was tired of assigning short passages for my students to read and many of them getting nothing from it. Tovani's reading strategies instantly made my students more successful. Talking to them about what good readers do demystified the process and placed the responsibility and power to interpret text back in their hands.

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This is a must buy for anyone who is working with young adults, helping them to truly create meaning from the reading, especially academic, they are required, or choose to read.

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There is something for every type of student here. There are universal strategies from basic reading comprehension to literary analysis. I've always struggled with how to teach inference and analysis to students- I know how I do it, but how do I transfer this knowledge to my students? This book covers the strategies along with the author's personal experiences teaching them in the classroom. Most, if not all, teachers will be able to relate to the author's humorous yet realistic writing style. Student responses to reading are reenacted and I found myself nodding and smirking with the commonalities. The book makes it all come to life.

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The information in this book is invaluable to anyone working with adolescents. Tovani's narrative provide practical application of all of the strategies. I immediately tabbed the book for easy reference for use with middle school teachers. EVERY literacy coach needs to own this book! I used one of the activities from the book today to demonstrate reading for a specific purpose, and the teachers immediately said they wanted to use it with their students. This would be an excellent choice for a study group or book club!