Gerald G. Duffy

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1. The Foundation: Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing

2. Skills and Strategies to Be Learned

3. Explaining the Forest as Well as the Trees

4. How to Use Part II of This Book

5. Decisions, Decisions, Decisions!

II. Examples of How to Explain

Examples for Explaining Vocabulary

Example 1. Teaching Word Meanings Directly

Example 2. Using Semantic Maps to Develop Word Meaning

Example 3. Using Context to Figure Out Word Meanings

Example 4. Structural Analysis

Examples for Explaining Comprehension Strategies

Example 5. Predicting

Example 6. Monitoring, Questioning, and Repredicting

Example 7. Imaging

Example 8. Inferring

Example 9. Look-Backs as Fix-It Strategies

Example 10. Main Ideas

Example 11. Theme

Example 12. Summarizing

Example 13. Drawing Conclusions

Example 14. Evaluating

Example 15. Synthesizing

Examples for Explaining Word Recognition

Example 16. Attending to Print Detail

Example 17. Recognizing Words at Sight

Example 18. Phonemic Awareness

Example 19. Letter-Sound Association

Example 20. Decoding by Analogy

Example 21. Context and Phonics in Combination

Examples for Explaining Fluency

Example 22. Quick Recognition of Look-Alike Words

Example 23. Intonation and Phrasing

Appendix: Additional Practical Teaching Resources