60 Strategies for Improving Reading Comprehension in Grades K-8

This ready-to-use tool kit of fun and functional strategies, based on the National Reading Panel Report, helps teach the most difficult piece of the reading process: comprehension.

Author: Kathleen F. Jonson
Publisher: Corwin Publishers
Published: 12/21/2005
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.72lbs
Size: 11.34h x 8.62w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9780761988373

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2006 pg. 229

About the Author
Jonson, Kathleen F.: - In her 40 years as an educator, Kathleen Feeney Jonson, Professor Emeritus, has been a teacher, taught director of staff development, principal, director of curriculum and instruction, and university faculty. She conducted numerous workshops for teachers and administrators on such topics as reading comprehension strategies, writing process, portfolio assessment, peer coaching, and beginning teacher assistance programs. Until her retirement in summer 2009, Jonson was professor of education and coordinator of the Master in Arts in Teaching Reading program at the University of San Francisco′s School of Education. She published three books with Corwin Press, including The New Elementary Teacher′s Handbook (1st edition 1997, 2nd edition 2001), Being an Effective Mentor: How to Help Beginning Teachers Succeed (1st edition 2002, 2nd edition 2007), and 60 Strategies for Improving Reading Comprehension in Grades K-8 (2006).