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Assessing Comprehension Thinking Strategies ebook
About This Book
Developed by renowned author Ellin Keene, this resource is an ideal tool for assessing students' reading comprehension. This book offers a unique way of assessing how students use thinking strategies to comprehend text and features four reading passages for each grade level (1-8) that offer high-interest fiction and nonfiction text. Each assessment is accompanied by a rubric that allows you to document students' thinking and then score and monitor their growth. Strategies assessed include thinking aloud, using schema, inferring, asking questions, determining importance in text, setting a purpose for reading, monitoring comprehension, visualizing, synthesizing and retelling, and story structure/structural patterns. The assessments can be used in various ways to inform instruction and to assess learning. All passages, assessments, and rubrics are provided in digital format and the assessments and rubrics can be customized. This resource is correlated to the Common Core and other state standards.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Credits
- Page 3: Table of Contents
- Page 4 - Foreword by Ellin Keene
- Page 7 - How to Use This Book
- Page 9 - Strategies Assessed in This Book
- Page 11 - Whatâs Included in This Book
- Page 13 - Correlation to Standards
- Page 16 - The Research
- Page 20 - Grade One
- Page 24 - Grade Two
- Page 28 - Grade Three
- Page 32 - Grade Four
- Page 36 - Grade Five
- Page 40 - Grade Six
- Page 44 - Grade Seven
- Page 48 - Grade Eight
- Page 52 - Thinking Aloud
- Page 55 - Using Schema
- Page 58 - Inferring
- Page 61 - Asking Questions
- Page 64 - Determining Importance in Text
- Page 67 - Setting a Purpose for Reading
- Page 70 - Monitoring Comprehension
- Page 73 - Visualizing (Using Sensory and Emotional Images)
- Page 76 - Synthesizing and Retelling
- Page 80 - Text Structure/Structural Patterns
- Page 83 - Appendix A: Works Cited
- Page 84 - Appendix B: Product Suggestions and Recommended Reading
- Thank You Page