Seize the Meaning! provides you with the tools you need to help your elementary school child become an effective, active reader. This user-friendly, practical guide is divided into seven chapters, each of which covers an essential element of reading comprehension: definition, foundation, evaluation, instruction, participation, intuition, and emancipation. Each chapter includes: At Promise/At Risk:An overview of the element of reading comprehension being discussed, why it matters, and what happens in its absence; Gpals: What to aim for when working with your child on each element of comprehension; Tools: Learning games, activities, and tips to help your child achieve those goals; Landmines: What to watch out for and how to spot trouble General principles of good practice, the acronym stands for visualize, anticipate, interpret, and listen; Evidence: A sample illustrating the importance of each element of comprehension. 作者简介： Priscilla L.Vail,M.A.T. Priscilla L.

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A boy and his dog savour the silence of the early morning as they deliver papers. Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Pilkey (When Cats Dream; the Dragon books) is at his best in this highly atmospheric work. Here his trademark color palette glows quietly under the cover of darkness; violet skies and emerald-shadowed fields predominate until the explosion of a fiery dawn. Early one cold morning a boy and his dog rise to deliver newspapers. In almost reverential silence they eat breakfast, prepare the newspapers, then step out into the chill, leaving sleeping parents and sister inside. Pilkey perfectly captures the thrill of being out early, seeing the world so new and having it all to oneself. Something magical is at work on this most ordinary of paper routes, tangible in the controlled hush of the narrative and in the still, moon-lit landscapes. And, at last, as his family awakens to golden sunlight, the paperboy returns to his bed, prepared to enter another familiar Pilkey world: dreaml

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