Talk About Understanding: Rethinking Classroom Talk To Enhance Comprehension [Paperback]

Reading education pioneer Ellin Oliver Keene demystifies comprehension instruction by describing what it can look like when readers comprehend deeply and what it can look like when teachers aim for this deep comprehension. This ground-breaking book is illustrated with video footage of Ellin modeling the reading instruction she describes. Here, you can watch Ellin use language and teaching moves that help students go beyond superficial reading comprehension to lasting understanding.

Talk About Understanding offers:

• Outcomes of Understanding Markers-descriptions of the behaviors present when children understand a text deeply including ways to assess with and teach toward these outcomes.
• Talk About Understanding Principles-suggestions to modify teaching language and teaching interactions to deepen children's ability to comprehend.
• From the Inside Video Segments-classroom footage of Ellin teaclc