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Implementing Cognitive Strategy Training Across The School 

The Benchmark Manual For Teachers

by Irene Gaskins & Thorne Elliot 

Describes a classroom-based program -planned and executed by teachers -to focus and guide students with serious reading problems to be goal-orientated, planful, strategic, and self-assessing. Benchmark School (gr. 1-8) provides students with success by teaching them cognitive strategies for dealing with problems in learning, which leads to increasingly better reading, an improved sense of self-worth, and successful return to mainstreaed classes.

Written by teachers, this book is unique because it includes verbatim transcriptions of strategy use, showing how the teachers integrate and support the strategies in classroom instruction.
 

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