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= Strategies That Work: A Study Guide to Support Teacher Professional Development =



This resource has been developed as a supplemental study guide for Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis's book, //Strategies that Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement. (see below for full reference)//

Harvey and Goudvis have developed a study guide to support teachers' professional thinking and engagement with their book and we think this is a great starting place for discussion. Reading specialists, literacy coaches and classroom teachers with a strong professional interest in reading comprehension and who may be leading professional learning communities in their exploration of Harvey and Goudvis' book, may want to understand the research that undergirds their recommendations, however. We have designed this wiki, then, to serve professionals who crave deeper understanding of the research that has driven reading comprehension instruction for young readers.

In this wiki, we provide references, links and where permissable, .pdf copies to research from which Harvey and Goudvis have drawn. We contextualize these studies so that teacher leaders can understand how they connect to the main ideas of each chapter in the book. We also extend Harvey and Goudvis's recommendations for strategy instruction by providing tech-integration ideas that support comprehension development, and teach essential new literacies skills.

Harvey, S. & Goudvis, A. (2007). //Strategies that work: Teaching comprehension for understanding and engagement// (2nd ed.). Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers.
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