Explaining Reading: A Resource for Teaching Concepts, Skills, and Strategies (Solving Problems in the Teaching of Literacy)

Part I: Background to Explaining. The Foundation: Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing. Skills and Strategies to Be Learned. Explaining the Forest as Well as the Trees. How to Use Part II of This Book. Decisions, Decisions, Decisions! Part II: Examples of How to Explain. Examples for Explaining Vocabulary. Example 1: Teaching Word Meanings Directly. Example 2: Using Semantic Maps to Develop Word Meaning. Example 3: Using Context to Figure Out Word Meanings. Example 4: Structural Analysis. Examples for Explaining Comprehension Strategies. xample 5: Predicting. Example 6: Monitoring, Questioning, and Repredicting. Example 7: Imaging. Example 8: Inferring. Example 9: Look-Backs as Fix-it Strategies. Example 10: Main Ideas. Example 11: Theme. Example 12: Summarizing. Example 13: Drawing Conclusions. Example 14: Evaluating. Example 15: Synthesizing. Examples for Explaining Word Recognition. Example 16: Attending to Print Detail. Example 17: Recognizing Words at Sight. Example 18: Phonemic Awareness. Example 19: Letter-sound Association. Example 20: Decoding by Analogy. Example 21: Context and Phonics in Combination. Examples for Explaining Fluency. Example 22: Quick Recognition of Look-Alike Words. Example 23: Intonation and Phrasing. Appendix: Additional Practical Teaching Resources.