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Teaching Comprehension Strategies: a Metacognitive Approach is a contemporary series that methodically and creatively teaches students the skills and strategies needed for effective comprehension. These strategies have been defined as: understanding words; finding information; identifying the main idea; sequencing; comparing; predicting; concluding; summarising; inferring; cause and effect; fact or opinion; and point of view. Features include: * original and varied texts, customised to suit the strategy being highlighted * skills and strategies specifically taught using explicitly modelled as well as supported examples and activities * a student âÂÂtestâ page, where students apply the particular strategy being taught; suitable for assessment purposes * background notes and information for each strategy, to assist the teacher and to give the activities the widest possible application * answers where necessary. A high-interest series that doesnâÂÂt just talk about comprehension, it teaches it! Book A - 5-6yrs Book B - 6-7yrs Book C - 7-8yrs Book D - 8-9yrs Book E - 9-10yrs Book F - 10-11yrs Book G - 11-12yrs