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• Title:Understanding texts & readers : responsive comprehension instruction with leveled texts / Jennifer Serravallo.
  
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• Variant Title:Understanding texts and readers
  
• Author/Creator:Serravallo, Jennifer, author.
  
• Published/Created:Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, [2018]
  

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  • Location:EDUCATION LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: LB1573.7 .S476 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Reading comprehension--Study and teaching (Elementary)
  Readers--Evaluation.
  
• Description:x, 278 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
  
• Summary:"Understanding Texts & Readers makes comprehension make sense. In it, Jennifer Serravallo narrows the distance between assessment and instruction. She maps the four fiction and four nonfiction comprehension goals she presented in The Reading Strategies Book to fourteen text levels and shares sample responses that show what to expect from readers at each. Jen begins by untangling the many threads of comprehension: Levels, engagement, stamina, the relevance of texts, and much more. Then level by level she: - calls out with precision how plot and setting, character, vocabulary and figurative language, and themes and ideas change as fiction across levels - specifies how the complexity of main idea, key details, vocabulary, and text features increases in nonfiction texts - points out what to expect from a reader as text characteristics change - provides samples of student responses to texts at each level - shares progressions across levels to support instructional planning"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780325108926 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  0325108927 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I Readers, Texts, and Levels
  and What It All Means for Comprehension
  Comprehension Goals and Considerations
  Reader and Text Variables That Impact Comprehension
  Merging Levels and Comprehension: What to Expect in the Parts Ahead
  pt. II Fiction: Texts, Readers, and Comprehension
  Studying Fiction and Supporting Readers: A Framework for Comprehension
  Understanding Fiction Texts: A Level-by-Level Guide to Characteristics
  Understanding Fiction Readers: A Goal-by-Goal Guide to Readers' Comprehension of Increasingly Complex Texts
  Plot and Setting
  Character
  Vocabulary and Figurative Language
  Themes and Ideas
  pt. III Nonfiction: Texts, Readers, and Comprehension
  Studying Nonfiction and Supporting Readers: A Framework for Comprehension
  Understanding Nonfiction Texts: A Level-by-Level Guide to Characteristics
  Understanding Nonfiction Readers: A Goal-by-Goal Guide to Readers' Comprehension of Increasingly Complex Texts
  Main Idea
  Key Details
  Vocabulary
  Text Features
  pt. IV Assessment and Instruction: Bringing Your Understanding of Texts and Readers to the Classroom
  Knowing Students: Interests, Language, Culture, Background Knowledge, and More
  Assessing and Evaluating Comprehension
  Matching Readers with Books for Independent Reading
  Conducting Goal-Setting Conferences
  Using a Variety of Reading Strategies: Content for Teaching Comprehension
  Using a Variety of Structures: Methods for Teaching Comprehension
  CONCLUSION: The Alchemy of Reading
  Professional Resources
  Children's Literature.