Building Reading Comprehension Habits in Grades 6-12: A Toolkit of Classroom Activities
- ISBN-10
- 0872075060
- ISBN-13
- 9780872075061
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Pages
- 226
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- International Reading Assn
- Author
- Jeff Zwiers
Description
"This book is intended for middle school and high school teachers of social studies, science, English, English-language development, and any other subject with challenging texts and classes with readers who struggle to understand them. The activities are especially meant to help readers who are below grade level to access and organize the content of grade-level texts." - Preface.
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