Comprehension Connections: Bridges to Strategic Reading » (1st Edition)

Tanny McGregor has been teaching and learning in the West Clermont School District near Cincinnati, Ohio, for the past eighteen years. She currently supports twelve schools as a K - 12 literacy specialist, coaching teachers, providing demonstration lessons, and facilitating laboratory classrooms. In addition, Tanny is an adjunct professor for Ashland University, teaching graduate courses in creativity.

Inferring, questioning, determining importance. It s not easy to explain these abstract reading strategies to elementary readers, yet knowing how they work and how to use them is an important first step to connecting with texts. Fortunately Tanny McGregor has developed visual, tangible, everyday lessons that make abstract thinking concrete and that can help every child in your classroom make more effective use of reading comprehension strategies.