Oakhill, Jane.

Understanding and teaching reading comprehension a handbook / [electronic resource] : Jane Oakhill, Kate Cain and Carsten Elbro. - New York : Routledge, 2015. - 1 online resource (vii, 129 p.) : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. What it's all about -- 2. Skills and processes -- 3. Assessing comprehension and the characteristics of poor comprehenders -- 4. Inferences : going beyond explicit details to make sense of text -- 5. Knowing and learning the meanings of words -- 6. Sentences and their connections -- 7. Finding and using text structure when reading -- 8. Does it make sense? Monitoring for meaning -- 9. Pulling it all together.

9781315756042 (ebook : PDF)


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