{"product_id":"9780325003238","title":"To Understand: New Horizons in Reading Comprehension","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"This is a work of incredible scope: adventurous, ingratiating, challenging, genuinely groundbreaking, and gorgeously written. It will knock the socks off this profession.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Harvey Daniels\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAuthor of \u003ci\u003eSubjects Matter\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eContent-Area Writing\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe renaissance in comprehension instruction launched by \u003ci\u003eMosaic of Thought\u003c\/i\u003e has led to changes in hundreds of thousands of classrooms, where teachers now model reading strategies, and students probe meaning more deeply. But no book in the field has satisfactorily answered the question: \u003ci\u003eWhat does it really mean to comprehend?\u003c\/i\u003e In \u003ci\u003eTo Understand\u003c\/i\u003e, Ellin Oliver Keene not only explores this important question, but reveals what teachers can do to encourage all students to engage in deep understanding far more consistently than before. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn discovering what's really behind comprehension, \u003ci\u003eTo Understand \u003c\/i\u003egoes well beyond comprehension strategy instruction. Keene identifies specific Dimensions and Outcomes of Understanding-characteristics identified in readers with a highly developed ability to make sense of text-to help you rethink what comprehension is. She demonstrates how to leverage the Dimensions and Outcomes into relevant, provocative, memorable instruction. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo Understand\u003c\/i\u003e proposes a model that incorporates all aspects of literacy instruction-word learning and comprehension-and describes how teachers can focus on what matters most in literacy content. Keene shows that when teachers target the most essential content, they have the time to help \u003cb\u003eevery\u003c\/b\u003e student engage more deeply with texts and discover a passion for reading and learning. The model is founded on four simple, but powerful concepts: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFocus on what's important \u003c\/b\u003eby teaching vital concepts in depth rather than skimming over nonessential skills \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eUse research-based teaching and learning strategies,\u003c\/b\u003e including proven-effective comprehension and language-based strategies, then taking them further by showing students how the strategies lead them to a fuller understand of a text \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTeach the essential concepts over a long period of time\u003c\/b\u003e so that children have an opportunity to learn not only a comprehension strategy, but to explore where that strategy leads in their understanding \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eGive students numerous opportunities to apply the concepts \u003c\/b\u003ein a variety of texts and contexts. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eTo Understand\u003c\/i\u003e in hand, you'll find new ways to draw out the innate intellectual interest in every student and spark dramatic improvements in literacy learning and comprehension, even among students who struggle. You'll see that by rethinking what it means to understand-by teaching children the Outcomes and Dimensions of understanding-you can help students exceed expectations while broadening your vision of their abilities, their capacity, and their energy for learning. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThere's still more-much more-to learn about comprehension. Read \u003ci\u003eTo Understand, \u003c\/i\u003ejoin Ellin Oliver Keene, and discover that what's at the very core of comprehension can not only reinvigorate your teaching but take your students to new, uncharted levels of learning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heinemann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47012463608048,"sku":"9780325003238","price":39.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780325003238_p0.jpg?v=1763765149","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780325003238","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}