Brookline Books/Lumen Editions

Cognitive Strategy Instruction 

Improves Children's Academic Performance (2nd Ed.)

by Michail Pressley & Vera E. Woloshyn 

This completely rewritten and updated second edition presents the strategies empirically shown to improve competence in the adademic skill and content areas -decoding, reading comprehension, vocabulary, spelling, writing, science and mathematics -for elementary and middle schools.

Each chapter succinctly indicates the current understandings in the area and demonstrates the logic behind teaching strategies for that area. It then presents the validated strategies and how to teach them. It also includes references for the teacher who wants more information.