Engaging children in books and loving reading is a natural next step when they understand and go to a deeper level to embrace books. Another must-have for kids 4-8 are 2 fabulous pieces of children's literature with invaluable teaching guides for parents and teachers:The Big Squeal: A Wild, True, and Twisted Tail and
Life's Little Lessons: An Inch-By-Inch Tale of Success...which teach those all important early reading skills and develop a love for reading !

A wonderful teaching resource for teaching reading comprehension strategies. A must read for all elementary teachers!

I absolutely love the lessons in this book. There are excellent modeling lessons and ideas to help your students increase their reading comprehension skills. You won't regret buying this book.

This is an AWESOME book. I had the opportunity to listen to Stephanie Harvey talk and she is amazing! This book makes such perfect common sense. We use the Comprehension toolkit in our school and this book goes right along with it. I actually want to expand and use this book more. It is great not only for the language arts classroom but for all content area classes. This is a must have for your professional library!!!!

Most of the reviews mention what a great teaching tool this is so I thought why can't it work for me? I'm an adult that was looking for a book to help increase my reading comprehension. My thoughts were to to go back to the beginning. Though there were some good ideas, this book was by far elementary. It does cover the basic reading comprehension skills about making connections, questioning, visualizing, inferring, etc. However, the articles, examples, drawings are all written for and by children. I can 100% understand how elementary teachers and children could benefit from this book. But if you are an adult who struggles with reading comprehension this is NOT the book for you. My suggestion is to try "Read Better, Remember More" by Elizabeth Chesla. It is fantasic. It has exceptional practice exercises and skill building ideas that can help you become a good reader who interacts with the text.

A group of our teachers is doing a book study and are getting lots of great ideas from this book!

This book is a gem. It is written in a graceful and readable style. The authors fill the book with examples that illustrate keys to improving reading comprehension, apt books, stories or readings that reinforce the point, teacher-student communications and examples of teacher-student work. For anyone involved in teaching reading comprehension or tutoring students with reading difficulties, it is an invaluable resource.

The book was in great condition. It didn't even look used! Great seller and great product!

This book is absolutely wonderful. The ideas are fantastic, it breaks it down and gives you examples of how to use the strategies! This helps the new teacher and the teacher that wants to re-vamp their strategies. I definetely recommend this book to EVERY teacher. It's also a great addition to a professional development library.

This book is an absolutely wonderful resource!!! There are a tremendous amount of strategies and examples provided to teach students how to enhance their comprehension. The best thing about this book is that it not only provides the various strategies, as many often do, but it shows real world examples of how each strategy can be used for a variety of ages and subject matter. In addition, it provides an excellent resource list of recommended books, magazines, and newspapers for teaching content.

This is a must have for anyone interested in helping students develop their comprehension skills!

This book sums up a lot of key elements of literacy education. The strategies in it will surely broaden your students' classroom experience and hopefully develop lifelong learners.

The newer edition of this book is wonderful. It is packed with useful information that every teacher can apply to their reading instruction. I found the text easy to read, the recommendations are practical, and this book is a wonderful companion text to "The Comprehension Toolkit".

Thanks Stephanie for another practical teachers' book. New strategies are very specific and ideas on wht to look for (like a kid with too many but vague ideas) was on target.

Mrs Wasneski
Special educator
Grand Junction Colorado

Strategies That Work 2nd Edition is a terrific resource for teaching comprehension. Based on a body of research on reading comprehension, the authors help teachers translate research into classroom practice with over 60 comprehension strategy lessons to help kids learn, understand and remember what they read. Four new chapters in the final section of the book focus on reading and understanding across the curriculum, in science, social studies, text books and even test reading! The authors feature kids work throughout the book, and show how they assess comprehension which is very helpful. I recommend this book without reservation.

The title of the book is very misleading. I was expecting actual strategies I could use. Most of the info in the book is similar to the America's Choice program and the whole language approach. As an experienced teacher, I was looking for fresh ideas for teaching comprehension.

This is an insightful book with regards to teaching reading comprehension. I believe it truly focuses on the differences between comprehension skills needed during reading and comprehension skills students use for application. I would recommend this book to anyone.

this is a great resource for a teacher looking to add something new to his or her bag of tricks...great refresher!!

This is a totally fantastic book. It is written so well and in a down to earth fashion that I couldn't put it down. It was as easy to read as my favorite novel. Most importantly, however, it clearly explained how the best learning takes place. The strategies in this book hit every facet of learning as described by American Psychiatry. Put a study of this book together with a study of how our memory works, and you can't help but understand better how to teach, as well as clearly understand why other strategies have only limited success. This is a book that will stay on my desk and be read and studied over and over again. My thanks to the authors.

I've had this book on my shelf for 4 years and have decided to use this book, along with Reading Strategies that work by Laura Robb to enhance my reader's workshop with my third graders. You have to own this book because it gives great teaching tips on how to teach comprehension. My favorite part are the lists at the back of the book which have book to help teach a strategy and ideas on how to teach response (discussion, writing, etc)using each strategy.