Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning, 4th ed

By Doug Buehl

Book Overview

Educators across content areas have turned to Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning for almost two decades. This fully updated fourth edition delivers rich, practical, research-based strategies that readers have found invaluable in the context of today's classrooms.Doug has written all-new chapters that focus on the instructional shifts taking place as the Common Core State Standards are implemented across the United States. These introductory chapters will help you do the following: Understand the research base for comprehension strategies in content classroomsLearn how to tap into students' background knowledge to enhance comprehension of complex texts and build new knowledgeShow learners how to question a textTeach reading and thinking through a disciplinary lensAt the heart of this edition are more than forty classroom strategies, with variations and strategy indexes that identify the instructional focus of each strategy, pinpoint the text frames in play as students read and learn, and correlate students' comprehension processes across the phases of strategy implementation. In addition, each strategy is cross-referenced with the Common Core's reading, writing, speaking/listening, and language standards.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872070026
• ISBN13: 9780872070028
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: International Literacy Association
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.6" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

helpful

I think this is a great tool for new teachers like myself. Buehl tells you the advantages for each method as well as offering ideas for some graphic organizers. We used it in our methods class to improve reading in all class types. I reccommend this book to throw some interactive strategies into your lesson plans!

Really good strategies...excellent resource.

This book is AMAZING. A must-have for ALL teachers! The strategies apply to all content areas and grade levels.

Must have for all teachers!

Well organized and easy to reference, this book encompasses a wide-range of strategies to keep students of all ages actively engaged.

Strategies 4 Real

This book is reader friendly. I had no problems reading and interpreting how to use the strategies in the book. It's great knowing that you don't have to reinvent the wheel when deciding how to help your students "get something."

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This book is one of the best if you are looking to find strategies for teaching. I strongly recommend it to all teachers.