Language and Reading Comprehension Success ebook
Everything You Need to Improve your Students' Reading Comprehension Skills
Many school-age students have trouble with reading comprehension. It is a global
problem and partly has its roots in children having low average, or poor literacy skills.
Reading comprehension failure is complex, and is a tough thing to solve. The good news
is that our understanding of comprehension failure is improving. We know that a struggle to understand text is related to problems in key areas such as, inference, auditory
memory and language skills.
The best way for your students to improve comprehension is by explicit and detailed
teaching of these skills.
Which was the conviction and viewpoint that guided me in the creation of this ebook...
Language and Reading Comprehension Success is a detailed and easy to use ebook that will
improve your students' oral and reading comprehension and inference skills.
By sharpening their comprehension
skills, your students will become better readers. With improved reading comprehension skills,
your students will be better equipped to understand an author's message.
Understanding the subtle
hidden information in text is a vital skill as students progress from elementary/primary school into secondary college.
For your students to learn independently, they need to comprehend and infer an
author or speaker's often hidden meaning.
For many students comprehension of written text
is a confusing puzzle.
Obstacles to Successful Reading Comprehension
Emily, a 10 year old girl, reads words on the page quite well
but cannot comprehend the meaning of what
she reads.
Emily has problems understanding written language. The same is true with spoken
language.
Emily hears the words ok, but has problems understanding and making sense
of the words. Clearly, this limits her ability to respond well when in conversation
with peers or her teacher.
But it's Emily's difficulty with reading comprehension that is of most concern to her.
For Emily, the task of responding to direct questions about the book is a huge
burden for her. When questioned about the text by her teacher, Emily will often sit in embarrassed silence as
her face turns red. She has no recollection of the events in the book, nor has any insight into character motivation.
Emily's silence causes her teacher to become frustrated and confused, and questioning why Emily can't recall events in a passage she has just read.
What's Causing Emily's Problem with Comprehension?
Emily has reading comprehension failure. She can't comprehend the meaning of the text, even though
she can read the words on the page. She fails to comprehend the meaning because her vocabulary knowledge
is poor, and her working memory ability is weak.
Emily also has problems learning new and difficult words. She has difficulty because she doesn't know how
to attend to and focus on unfamiliar words so as to learn their meaning. When she is confronted with an unfamiliar word
Emily skims across the word quickly and doesn't devote mental energy to learning it.
And, because Emily has difficulty learning new words her vocabulary remains poor, and her ability to infer,
text is compromised.
Reading failure is often the result.
For Emily, and students like Emily, reading comprehension needs to be explicitly taught.
And that's what this ebook is about...
Comprehension of written text is a life skill that will serve your students
their entire academic and personal lives.
Will the ebook Help my Students?
When you effectively
deliver the program you can expect your students' comprehension and inference
skills to improve.
Your students' language and inference skills will improve because the ebook specifically
targets skills such as vocabulary knowledge, inference, auditory memory, and critical thinking.
These language and higher order thinking skills are essential for successful reading comprehension.
What's in the ebook?
The ebook is divided into 9 chapters.
Each chapter features oral and written language
questions, which are related to the
story, Guff's Journey Home.'
The context
of a familiar story - in this case 'Guff's Journey Home' provides a solid foundation for your
students as they are gradually introduced to increasingly challenging language concepts.
The ebook was
crafted in the knowledge of the powerful role oral and written language skills play in developing
students' comprehension and inferencing abilities.
Upon completion of the ebook, your students will have been gently prodded with hundreds of questions designed to
make them think critically about written text. Best of all, your students will have learnt to reflect on story and written
language in completely new ways.
In brief, the Language and Reading Comprehension Success ebook is a unique and powerful tool to teach your
students vital comprehension and inference skills.
Free Bonus: Story Odyssey Narrative Game
Story Odyssey is a narrative-based game that works by involving your students in an exciting game called Guff's Journey Home, while introducing story grammar rules.
Story grammar can be a difficult concept for students to learn.
But here's the thing, we learn difficult concepts best when they are introduced within the context of a game.
That's why the Prehistoric Trek game is successful in teaching story grammar skills. It is immersive. Your students will respond to
events and challenges, that they must overcome to help their character reach the safety of a village.
And while playing the game, your students will learn critically important narrative and story telling
skills such as story retell, initiating event, setting, character motivation, and how to
successfully conclude a story, both oral and written.
Features a Hand Drawn Gameboard
The gameboard, which can be printed out on A3 or A4 paper, is a hand drawn picture that has several divergent paths for each
character to select.
What's more, a feature that children like about the game is that you never really play the same game twice.
Which means there are boundless scenarios to retell and to write about!
Alternate Scenarios
There are several
alternate scenarios built into the gameboard itself. And, combine that with the range of
rules variations embedded in the rulebook, the different experiences a character may have is
virtually limitless.
The 43 page rulebook is packed with detailed descriptions of characters and setting, ideas for games and
much more...
Both the Language and Reading Comprehension Success and Story Grammar Programs are suitable for students aged between 9-12 years of age.
Available as an Adobe PDF download direct to your Computer, or as a Data CD-ROM
The adobe PDF file enables you to download the ebook file directly to your computer's hard
drive, where you have the option of printing the entire book, or individual chapters almost immediately.
Also available as a Data CD
There's also the Data CD option.
Once you've purchased the product, your order will be
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CD to your nominated postal address. You can expect to receive the Data CD within 3-5 working days, if you live in the U.S., or within 14 days if you live outside the U.S.
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Here's what you get...
- The Language and Reading Comprehension Success ebook
- The Story Odyssey, Narrative Program
- The Hand Drawn Gameboard - Prehistoric Trek
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- The Language and Reading Comprehension Success ebook
- The Story Odyssey, Narrative Program
- The Hand Drawn Gameboard - Prehistoric Trek
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