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About the Reading Puzzle SeriesIn her best-selling book Teach Them All TRead, Elaine McEwan provides a great discussion of the most current reading research regarding how students learn tread seducators can make informed decisions about instruction Research about reading has given us insight intthe skills on which we need tfocus our efforts timprove reading and comprehension Now we can identify the skills that require reinforcement and intervene with explicit, thoughtful instruction The activities in The Reading Puzzle series will help the teacher accomplish this goalThe Reading Puzzle series provides instructional tools teachers can use immediately as part of the reading curriculum The Reading Puzzle series contains 10 books for Kindergarten through Grade 8 centered on the skills identified by the National Reading Panel as critical treading success Each of these books in the series helps unlock one piece of the reading puzzle and contains standards-based, ready-to-use activities that can be used tsupplement any reading programPhonemic Awareness, Grades K-3 Phonics, Grades K-3Vocabulary, Grades K-3Fluency, Grades K-3Comprehension, Grades K-3Word Analysis, Grades 4-8Spelling, Grades 4-8Vocabulary, Grades 4-8Fluency, Grades 4-8Comprehension, Grades 4-8These activity books contain ready-to-use activities that make it easy tput McEwans highly-successful strategies intpractice The strategies and activities will support struggling readers and enhance existing skill tencourage improvement in all students reading skillsComprehension, Grades 4-8Cognitive strategies used tincrease comprehension are an important piece of The Reading Puzzle Comprehension is the ability tconstruct meaning from text By understanding what theyve read, students are better able tremember, communicate, and apply the information theyve gained through readingThis book addresses four essential cognitive strategies that proficient readers need in order tunlock the meaning of written material These strategies include questioning, summarizing, organizing, and monitoring The questioning strategy teaches students tbe mind readers It challenges them task questions about what they read and interact with the text The summarizing strategy helps students get the gist or main idea of text It challenges students trestate the meaning in their own wordsThe monitoring strategy gives students concrete ways tfix up their mix-ups by thinking about how and what they are reading while they are actually readingThe organizing strategy invites students trepresent information from text in a graphic format in order tsee the big picture Students at every grade level must be shown how tuse cognitive strategies through modeling; coached tproficiency through guided practice; and then expected troutinely explain, elaborate, or defend their positions or answers before, during, and after reading Helping students develop these strategies will enhance and enlarge the scope of their learning Students will then be better equipped tbecome independent learners and readers within every content area Reading comprehension empowers students, giving them the ability texplore virtually any topic or subject in which they are interested This book can help teachers instill the joy of reading, which in turn can lead ta lifetime of fulfillment and success
