Strategies That Work

In addition to Strategies That Work, Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis have collaborated on numerous Stenhouse videos for teachers that depict effective reading and thinking strategies in action in real classrooms. Anne has been a classroom teacher, a staff developer, and an adjunct professor. Steph has spent her career thinking and learning about reading and writing as an elementary and special education teacher and a staff developer. She is the author of Nonfiction Matters (Stenhouse, 1998). Together Anne and Steph created The Comprehension Toolkit series (Heinemann, 2016), a practical resource for comprehension instruction. Insatiably curious about kids’ thinking, they are teachers first and foremost and spend much of their time working with schools and districts to implement progressive literacy practices.

Part I The Foundation of Meaning Chapter 1 Reading Is Thinking Chapter 2 Reading Is Strategic Chapter 3 Comprehension at the Core: Building Knowledge Through Thinking-Intensive Reading Chapter 4 Twenty-First Century Reading: Books and Beyond Chapter 5 Effective Comprehension Instruction: Teaching, Tone, and Assessment Part II Strategy Lessons (For a list of specific lessons, see page vii.) Chapter 6 Instructional Practices for Teaching Comprehension Chapter 7 Monitoring Comprehension: The Inner Conversation Chapter 8 Activating, Connecting, and Building: Why Background Knowledge Matters Chapter 9 Questioning: The Strategy That Propels Readers Forward Chapter 10 Visualizing and Inferring: Making What’s Implicit Explicit Chapter 11 Determining Importance in Text: The Nonfiction Connection Chapter 12 Summarizing and Synthesizing Information: The Evolution of Thought Part III Comprehension Across the Curriculum Chapter 13 Content Literacy: Reading, Writing, and Researching in Science and Social Studies Chapter 14 Researcher’s Workshop: Inquiry Across the Curriculum; Afterword