PREFACE
PURPOSE
Classroom teachers and reading specialists are doing a better job of teaching
reading than they have ever done before. However， they want to be even better!
To accomplish this goal， teachers want to know what new ideas have been dis-
covered in the teaching of comprehension--and how they can incorporate them
with the things that they are already doing well. This book was written to address
this concern.
Teaehers have always wanted to know--\"How do I teach children to compre-
hend?\" During the last decade， re~ding specialists， classroom teaehers， and re-
searchers have devoted much of their professional energy to discussing and ex-
ploring reading comprehension. Translating into classroom praetiees newly
discovered insights， understandings， and ideas about teaching comprehension is
the major purpose of Improving Beading Comprehension.
Throughout the text the emphasis is on how to teach comprehension. Its single
greatest focus is its application of a direet instruetion paradigm， with stress on the
critical step of teachers modeling new processes and skills as they teach， to the
real-life teaching of reading comprehension. Every attempt has been made to
summarize the supporting research and theory and translate it into practice.
However， this book does not represent a compendium of all of the research in
comprehension， for only those areas considered most likely to have direct impaet
on how teachers teach have been addressed. This is a praetieal book whose pri-
mary goal is to act as a helpful， guiding tool in the teaching of reading compre-
hension in today s classroom.
AUDIENCE
Improving Beading Comprehension focuses heavily on the elementary teacher
because that is where much of reading instruction takes place. However， the
book has been written so that it can be utilized by reading teachers and eontent
teachers at all levels.
It is intended for undergraduate and graduate students in most reading
courses， as well as for inserviee teachers enrolled in workshops or classes run by
their school systems. Additionally， it can be used on its own as an on-the-job re-
source by teaehers and specialists. In short， this text can be used by anyone who is
concerned with the effective teaching of reading comprehension.
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