Author: Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis
Format: Paperback
Published: Stenhouse Publishers, 2000

From the publisher: Since its publication in 2000, Strategies That Work has become an indispensable resource for teachers who want to explicitly teach thinking strategies so that students become engaged, thoughtful, independent readers. In this revised and expanded edition, Stephanie and Anne have added twenty completely new comprehension lessons, extending the scope of the book and exploring the central role that activating background knowledge plays in understanding. Another major addition is the inclusion of a section on content literacy which describes how to apply comprehension strategies flexibly across the curriculum.

Fluent readers must be able to decode, but they also need to know how to make connections and ask questions, how to visualize and infer, how to extract important ideas and to synthesize information. Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis show how teachers can help children develop strategies for comprehension. They include more than forty K-8 strategy lessons for understanding text; ways to use short text, such as picture books, newspapers, magazines, and poetry to teach comprehension; ideas for choosing books that promote thinking and discussion; suggestions to better comprehend text in social studies, science, and other content areas; a wide range of authentic response options that promote engagement and enable students to monitor their own comprehension; examples of student work, illustrations, scripts of conversations, and a complete assessment interview to demonstrate and evaluate students' use of strategies.