Reason to Read: Thinking Strategies for Life Through Learning - Softcover

Block, Cathy Collins

Softcover

ISBN 10: 020149048X ISBN 13: 9780201490480

Publisher: PEARSON SCHOOL K12, 1997

Synopsis

Motivate students in grades 4-8 to transfer reading/comprehension, metacognition, and thinking skills to their daily lives. All of the lessons in this resource book combine explicit strategic instruction with a choice of objectives, activities, and literature.

About this title

About the Author

Cathy Collins Block is a Professor of Education at Texas Christian University. She has taught every grade level from preschool to graduate school, and was elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the International Reading Association from 2002-2005. She has served or is presently serving on the Board of Directors of the National Reading Conference. Nobel Learning Communities, IBM Educational Board of Directors, and the National Center for Learning Disabilities. She presently serves on the Editorial Boards for the Journal of Educational Psychology, Reading Research Quarterly, The Reading Teacher, National Reading Conference Yearbook, and America Tomorrow. She has written more than 30 books and 80 research-based articles relative to literacy instruction and teacher education. She has also served or is serving on several elementary/middle school authorial writing teams for public/private school textbooks and literacy curriculum materials. She has written for Walt Disney Corporation, PBS Television Stations and other national media companies. She has received numerous honors as a teacher, including Who s Who Among America s Teachers and Who s Who in the World.

Edition details

• Publisher: PEARSON SCHOOL K12
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 020149048X
• ISBN 13: 9780201490480
• Binding: Paperback
• Editor: Fowkes Lois