21 Tips and Strategies for Writing and Selling Your First eBook September 28, 2018 There are more and more published authors today, largely due to the ease of self-published books and ebook distribution. Whether you’re writing a children’s book or non-fiction, writing, self-publishing and selling your first eBook is an essential step toward building up
“But I’m not a reading teacher. I teach literature.” I hear this comment repeated again and again as I coach teachers in Virginia, New York, and Michigan and conduct workshops for middle and high school teachers around the country. I’m sympathetic to their words because these teachers have had little to no formal training in
Comprehension: The Goal of Reading Comprehension, or extracting meaning from what you read, is the ultimate goal of reading. Experienced readers take this for granted and may not appreciate the reading comprehension skills required. The process of comprehension is both interactive and strategic. Rather than passively reading text, readers must analyze it, internalize it and
Reading teachers like to teach. For most of us, that means that we need to have something to share with our students: some concept, some skill, some strategy. To teach content, teachers must be able to define what the content is and is not . Teachers also need to be able to determine how the
Print Resource Cheryll Duquette and Mary Land Description of practice, approach or strategy: Changing demographics within society (and therefore within schools) has resulted in an increased number of students in English-language schools who do not speak English as their first language (Ortiz, Wilkinson, Robertson-Courtney, & Kushner, 2006). A variety of terms have been used to
7 Essential Reading Strategies Your ESL Students Must Know (and YOU Must Teach) by Claudia Pesce 174,409 views No one is born knowing how to read. But becoming simply literate is not enough. For academic and professional success, you need to learn how to read well . ESL students, in particular, need to develop the
Teach the Seven Strategies of Highly Effective Readers To improve students’ reading comprehension, teachers should introduce the seven cognitive strategies of effective readers: activating, inferring, monitoring-clarifying, questioning, searching-selecting, summarizing, and visualizing-organizing. This article includes definitions of the seven strategies and a lesson-plan template for teaching each one. To assume that one can simply have students
1. Monitoring comprehension Students who are good at monitoring their comprehension know when they understand what they read and when they do not. They have strategies to “fix” problems in their understanding as the problems arise. Research shows that instruction, even in the early grades, can help students become better at monitoring their comprehension. Comprehension
Overview Drawing from Jen’s bestselling resources The Writing Strategies Book and The Reading Strategies Book , this workshop will help you understand how to find goals for your readers and writers and how to support them over time as they work toward those goals. In the morning, you’ll dive into reading: how to know what
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