TY - BOOK AU - Dymock,Susan J. AU - Nicholson,Tom TI - Teaching reading comprehension: the what, the how, the why SN - 1927151260 U1 - 372.47 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Wellington, N.Z. PB - NZCER Press KW - Reading comprehension KW - Study and teaching (Elementary) KW - New Zealand N1 - Accompanied by companion CD-ROM which contains the texts and lesson plans for easy display or printing; "High 5! 1. Activating background knowledge-- 2. Questioning --3. Analysing text structure --4.Creating mental images -- 5. Summarising" -- Cover; Includes bibliographical references; 1; Introduction --; 2; What is reading comprehension? --; 3; Assessing reading comprehension in the era of national standards --; 4; The importance of the code in comprehension --; 5; Vocabulary and reading comprehension --; 6; Research on comprehension strategy instruction --; 7; Connecting to background (or prior) knowledge --; 8; Once upon a time -- teaching about narrative text structure --; 9; Did you know that? -- teaching about the structure--; 10; Teaching students how to ask and answer questions, image and summarise --; 11; Jumping to conclusions, the importance of inference --; 12; Figurative language and how it contributes to reading comprehension ER -