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Coteaching Reading Comprehension Strategies in Elementary School Libraries: Maximizing Your Impact

Additional Support for the How-to Chapters


It is important to take advantage of the flexibility of the Internet to provide educators with resources that were not available at the time of the book's publication or that were not included in the book. In addition to my experience teaching the lessons, school librarians from across the nation have been field testing the lessons. They have provided me with feedback, photographs, student work, and testimonials of their experiences. If you would like to field test a lesson and contribute to this site, please review the process on the Contribute page of this Web site.

The AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner have been added to each lesson's Web page. I will continually update and link pertinent information to help educators implement these lessons more effectively.

The How-to Chapters Additional Support
Chapter 3:
Activating or Building Background Knowledge

Additional Information about the Lessons for Chapter 3

Emerging Lesson: Photo of team teaching, educator reflections, and sample class Venn diagram

Advancing Lesson: Photograph of team teaching and examples of students' work

Advanced Lesson: Photograph of team teaching and of students completing graphic organizers, sample student work, and Internet Pathfinder: Tohono O'odham Nation

Support for Integrating the Similarities and Differences Instructional Strategy: Sample Category Matrix, Sample Notemaking Example for Category Matrix, Story Element Venn Diagram, and Story Element Comparison Rubric

Chapter 4: Using Sensory Images

Additional Information about the Lessons for Chapter 4

Emerging Lesson: Photograph of team teaching and testimonial email exchange

Advancing Lesson: Photograph of team teaching and sample student work

Advanced Lesson: AASL Standards Provided

Chapter 5: Questioning

Additional Information about the Lessons for Chapter 5

Emerging Lesson: Photo of team teaching, information about cultural authenticity in The Day of Ahmed's Secret, and Internet Pathfinder: Egypt (with sample student work)

Advancing Lesson: Photographs of parallel teaching and co-facilitation of small group work, and sample student work

Advanced Lesson: Photograph of team teaching and addition to QAR graphic organizer

Chapter 6:
Making Predictions and Inferences

Additional Information about the Lessons for Chapter 6

Emerging Lesson: Photo of team teaching and sample student work

Advancing Lesson: Photo of team teaching and sample student work

Advanced Lesson: Photo of team teaching, two alternate texts for guided practice, and sample student work

Chapter 7: Determining Main Ideas

Additional Information about the Lessons for Chapter 7

Emerging Lesson: AASL Standards Provided

Advancing Lesson: Photograph of team teaching, graphic organizers, and Internet Pathfinder: Emperor Penguins

Advanced Lesson: Photograph of collaborators, alternate product, Internet Pathfinder: Inventors and Inventions, alternate or additonal product: poem, and extension: Telecomputing Project: Kid-made Inventions
Chapter 8: Using Fix-up Options

Additional Information about the Lessons for Chapter 8

Emerging Lesson: Photograph of team teaching and lesson extension sample of student work

Advancing Lesson: Photograph of team teaching, teacher-librarian testimonial, sample class prewriting webs, and complete sample of student work

Advanced Lesson: Photograph of team teaching, sample student reflective paragraphs and artwork

Chapter 9: Synthesizing

Additional Information about the Lessons for Chapter 9

Emerging Lesson: Photograph of team teaching, link to van Gogh's "Sunflowers" painting, and adaptations for Student Products

Advancing Lesson: AASL Standards Provided

Advanced Lesson: Photographs of team teaching, new resources for the jazz bibliography, sample student work, and Internet Pathfinder: Jazz

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