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Comprehension for All: Further Reading Recommendations

Here are further reading ideas from Diane Snowball

Comprehension

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Comprehension Instruction: Research-Based Best Practices edited by Cathy Collins Block and Michael Pressley (Guilford Press, 2001).

"Reciprocal teaching of comprehension-fostering and comprehension monitoring activities" by A.S. Palinscar and and A.L. Brown, Cognition and Instruction (I(2),117-175,1984).

Effective Beginning Reading Instruction: The Rest of the Story from Research by Michael Pressley (National Education Association, 2002).

Teaching Comprehension (Levels K-2; 3-6; 6-9) by Diane Snowball, et al (AUSSIE Interactive, 2005, Three CD-Roms for professional development about the teaching of comprehension).

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Diane Snowball is a literary consultant and author, and the President of the professional development company Australian and United States Services in Education (A.U.S.S.I.E.).