Explaining Reading, Second Edition A Resource for Teaching Concepts, Skills, and Strategies

by Duffy, Gerald G.

• ISBN13: 9781606230756
• ISBN10: 1606230751
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-03-01
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

This bestselling teacher resource and widely adopted text demonstrates the "whats," "whys," and "how-tos" of explicit reading instruction for struggling K–8 learners. The book describes 23 skills and strategies associated with vocabulary, comprehension, word recognition, and fluency. Ways to explain each skill or strategy are illustrated in real-world examples that teachers can use as starting points for their own lessons. Retaining the straight-talking style that made the prior edition so popular, the second edition has been revised and updated to reflect reader feedback and the latest research.

Author Biography

Gerald G. Duffy, EdD, is the William Moran Distinguished Professor of Literacy and Reading at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Dr. Duffy spent 25 years teaching teachers how to teach reading and conducting research on classroom reading instruction at Michigan State University, where he was a Senior Researcher in the Institute for Research on Teaching and where he holds the rank of Professor Emeritus. He is also a former elementary and middle school teacher. A past President of the National Reading Conference and a member of the Reading Hall of Fame, Dr. Duffy has worked with teachers and children across the United States and overseas, has written and edited several books on reading instruction, and has published over 150 articles and research studies, with an emphasis on explicit teaching and teacher development.  

Table of Contents

Background to Explaining
The Foundation: Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing	p. 3
Skills and Strategies to Be Learned	p. 13
Explaining the Forest as Well as the Trees	p. 35
How to Use Part II of This Book	p. 44
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions!	p. 59
Examples of How to Explain
Examples for Explaining Vocabulary
Teaching Word Meanings Directly	p. 71
Using Semantic Maps to Develop Word Meaning	p. 77
Using Context to Figure Out Word Meanings	p. 85
Structural Analysis	p. 92
Examples for Explaining Comprehension Strategies
Predicting	p. 101
Monitoring, Questioning, and Repredicting	p. 107
Imaging	p. 115
Inferring	p. 122
Look-Backs as Fix-It Strategies	p. 130
Main Idea	p. 138
Theme	p. 146
Summarizing	p. 153
Drawing Conclusions	p. 161
Evaluating	p. 169
Synthesizing	p. 177
Examples for Explaining Word Recognition
Attending to Print Detail	p. 187
Recognizing Words at Sight	p. 192
Phonemic Awareness	p. 198
Letter-Sound Association	p. 204
Decoding by Analogy	p. 209
Context and Phonics in Combination	p. 215
Examples for Explaining Fluency
Quick Recognition of Look-Alike Words	p. 223
Intonation and Phrasing	p. 229
Appendix. Additional Practical Teaching Resources	p. 236
Index	p. 238
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