This book will help elementary school teachers equip their students with practical tools and understandings of the structures and conventions that allow them to excel, including concrete tools, passages, games, lessons, and examples to teach anaphora, connectives, paragraph structure, gathering evidence (fiction and nonfiction), and text challenge. A final chapter specifies how to stretch students in texts while attending to their stamina, executive skills, and interests.

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Cover ; Title Page ; Front Matter ; Table of Contents ; Foreword ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; Paradigm of Text Challenge ; Close Reading ; Chapter Overviews ; Chapter 1: Untangling Anaphora-Replacing Words ; Important Background ; Lesson Focus and Goal ; Activities ; Summary ; Chapter 2: Connectives in Sentences ; Important Background ; Lesson Focus and Goal ; Activities ; Summary ; Chapter 3: Understanding Paragraphs-The First Step for Main Idea and Summarizing ; Important Background ; Lesson Focus and Goal ; Activities ; Summary ; Chapter 4: Gathering Evidence from Literary Text Important Background Lesson Focus and Goal ; Activities ; Summary ; Chapter 5: Gathering Evidence from Informational Text ; Important Background ; Lesson Focus and Goal ; Activities ; Summary ; Chapter 6: Stretching Students in Text ; Important Background ; Lesson Focus and Goal ; Activities ; Summary ; References ; Index ; About the Author