Veteran educator, reading specialist, educational writer, and presenter Sheron Brown authored this invaluable resource book that tackles the challenges many intermediate-grade students have comprehending text. Rather than prescribing the read it now and I'll ask you questions about it later technique, the strategies presented involve teacher modeling and think-alouds as a major part of the instructional format. They are based on research and Sheron's 35 years of teaching experience. The strategies enhance students summarizing, predicting, inferring, self-monitoring, clarifying, questioning, and understanding expository text. Student passages comprise a major part of this book. Each chapter focuses on one of the 7 strategic comprehension areas and has many student practice passages. This book is intended to be a user-friendly text with tips, suggestions, and scripts to support your instruction of reading comprehension strategies. It also includes reproducibles and additional items such as bookmarks and posters to support the students learning of the strategies. 126 pages.