Differentiating Textbooks: Strategies to Improve Student Comprehension and Motivation
by Betty Hollas, Char Forsten, Jim Grant and Crystal Springs Books
The next logical and practical step toward improving your students' ability to read, comprehend, and retain what they are taught in content-area textbooks
If you use textbooks as part of your curriculum you need to have this book!
This easy-to-use resource provides over 80 step-by-step strategies for you to use with your textbooks to help build comprehension while also keeping students’ interest high. With one strategy per page you can easily access information on:
- How to select textbooks and how to modify the ones you already have
- How to quickly organise students into heterogeneous pairs and small groups in some different and interesting ways
- Strategies to use before, during and after reading textbooks
- Ways to change how expository information is conveyed and presented to students
- Activities that help increase vocabulary, activate prior knowledge, and enable students to make connections to the text
Helpful graphics accompany each strategy and activity, along with a materials list and step-by-step directions. With Differentiating Textbooks in hand, you will learn how to teach the student, not the textbook.
Click here to view sample pages of Differentiating Textbooks: Strategies to Improve Student Comprehension and Motivation.
©2003. 160 pages.
Differentiating Textbooks: Strategies to Improve Student Comprehension and Motivation is targeted at the following age ranges:
- Adult
Differentiating Textbooks: Strategies to Improve Student Comprehension and Motivation is designed to foster development in the areas of:
- Literacy
- Resource preparation
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