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Article: Reading Is Your Thing

Reading Is Your Thing (Even if You're Not a Reading Teacher)
Jeff Zwiers

The following activities (PDF download), Prediction Path and Quotation Café, are adapted from the IRA book Building Reading Comprehension Habits in Grades 6–12. They highlight the reading comprehension habit of making inferences and predictions, which can be used across content areas and grade levels.

Zwiers, J. (2011, April). Reading Is Your Thing (Even if You're Not a Reading Teacher). The Reading Teacher, 64(7), 543–545. doi: 10.1598/RT.64.7.11