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Informationen zum Autor Wayne Tennent is a Senior Lecturer in Education at Brunel University of London. His co-authored book Guiding Readers – Layers of Meaning was published in 2016 and won the United Kingdom Literacy Association (UKLA) academic book of the year award. He is a Brunel Global Citizen Award Winner, as nominated by the students, for his work in promoting a critical awareness of ‘race’ and gender in texts used for teaching. He works with schools, both nationally and internationally, developing pedagogical practices to support teaching for reading comprehension. Previously, he taught for many years, mainly in London, but also in Greece, Brunei and New Zealand. He continues to work with children on a regular basis. Klappentext Can baboons read? That is the thought-provoking question that opens this wonderfully accessible book for trainee and practising primary school teachers to fully understand the process of reading comprehension. Comprehension is an essential component of learning to read and a successful teacher of reading will have a portfolio of different strategies and approaches that take in to account that children learn to read in different ways. This book supports the development of student and practising teachers' subject knowledge by providing detailed guidance in to the reading comprehension process, along with practical strategies and lesson ideas for use in the classroom. Drawing from educational and psychological research, c S Why not preview the first chapter? It's a great starting point for discussion and debate on 'what is reading'. Zusammenfassung Can baboons read? That is the thought-provoking question that opens this wonderfully accessible book for trainee and practising primary school teachers to fully understand the process of reading comprehension. It develops subject knowledge and provides practical strategies and lesson ideas to teach comprehension confidently. Inhaltsverzeichnis Locating reading Locating comprehension SECTION 1: PROCESSES Knowledge: of life and language Memory and monitoring Inference making: Definition and difficulties Coherence inferences Interrogative inferences Text comprehension: uniting the separate components SECTION 2: PRACTICES Selecting texts Teaching comprehension: Pedagogical principles Teaching comprehension: Pedagogy in practice Conclusion ...
