Action Strategies for Deepening Comprehension: Role Plays, Text Structure Tableaux, Talking Statues, and Other...

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 192 pages
• Published by: Teaching Resources December 1, 2002
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0439218578
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0439218573
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.5 inches
• Weighs: 1 pounds

Product Description
Role Plays, Text Structure Tableaux, Talking Statues, and Other Enactment Techniques That Engage Students with Text
Enliven Reading!
Before reading, hand out lines of a poem and have students try to build an idea of what the poem will be aboutŠinvite two students to play good angel/bad angel for a book characterŠhave students perform a vocabulary statue depicting the meaning of terms such as global warming or deforestation. This book has many motivating ideas like this that energize students before, during, and after reading. These strategies can be done Individually, or through pair work or groups. Great for deepening reading strategies such as activating prior knowledge, inferring, visualizing, making connections, and more.

About The Author
Jeff Wilhelm is the author of Improving Comprehension with Think Aloud Strategies (Scholastic) You Gotta BE the Book (Teachers College Press) and several other books. He has taught middle school and high school and currently teaches in the Professional Development Network at the University of Maine Writing Project. He regularly presents at national and international conferences. This is the second book in his Action Strategies for Readers series for Scholastic.

Reader Reviews
Action Strategies for Deepening Comprehension is a wonderful resource for any educator who wants to engage students in learning and in critical thinking about text (fiction and non-fiction). The drama techniques outlined in this book are based on research and on Dr. Wilhelm's real classroom experiences. Dr. Wilhelm explains how these strategies can be used before, during, and after reading to 'help students enter the community of expert readers.' Every time I go back to this book to try another technique (and there are tons of them with many variations) I feel inspired by Dr. Wilhelm's enthusiasm so that I can't wait to try it out with my middle school students. I can say with confidence that I haven't had one fail yet. The movement, interaction, and creative outlet provided by these action strategies help my students connect with text and comprehend its meaning.