Welcome to Debbie Miller's real classroom where real students are learning to love to read, to write, and are together creating a collaborative and caring environment. In this book, Debbie focuses on how best to teach children strategies for comprehending text. She leads the reader through the course of a year showing how her students learn to become thoughtful, independent, and strategic readers. Through explicit instruction, modeling, classroom discussion, and, most important, by gradually releasing responsibility to her students, Debbie provides a model for creating a climate and culture of thinking and learning.
Here you will learn:
• techniques for modeling thinking;
• specific examples of modeled strategy lessons for inferring, asking questions, making connections, determining importance in text, creating mental images, and synthesizing information;
• how to help children make their thinking visible through oral, written, artistic, and dramatic responses to literature;
• how to successfully develop book clubs as a way for children to share their thinking.
Reading with Meaning shows you how to bring your imagined classroom to life. You will emerge with new tools for teaching comprehension strategies and a firm appreciation that a rigorous classroom can also be nurturing and joyful.

Table of Contents
Contents
Prologue: It Doesn't Get Better Than This
1. Guiding Principles
2. In September
3. Readers' Workshop: Real Reading from the Start
4. Settling In
5. Schema
6. Creating Mental Images
7. Digging Deeper
8. Inferring
9. Asking Questions
10. Determining Importance in Nonfiction
11. Synthesizing Information
Epilogue: In June
References
Index

About the Author(s)
Debbie Miller taught and learned from children in The Denver Public Schools for thirty years. Debbie now presents workshops and works extensively with schools and districts.

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