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Title: Powerful presentation of comprehension strategies
Review: Elin Keene uses a practical format to bring home the effect of difficult text on the early reader. Each of her chapters presents a different comprehension strategy. She opens the chapter with a text that was difficult for her--and it will be difficult for YOU! Then she models how the strategy may be taught and understood.It was uncanny the connections that the book causes the reader to make as a reading teacher. In one chapter she began with a poem by Codescu on the streets of Chicago. A long -planned trip to Chicago coincided with my reading of this chapter. The poem was difficult to interpret, and I found myself going back to it over and over, and discussing it with my travelling companions. Isn't this what we want our students to do? This book will be my bible for a long time to come.
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