Starting with Comprehension: Reading Strategies for the Youngest Learners

Though the product looks fine, it is not a book of games as sescribed. It is a book of blank worksheets for designing your own activities and maybe games. A big disappointment . I would only buy if I was needing a new look for music homework or daily drills.

Excellent resource

This book is terrible. The only good thing about it is the references that it provides. It does talk abut the basic comprehension strategies (schema, making inferences, etc), but the author just babbles about what she does in her classroom. The book is written more like a novel than an informational text. She does not thoroughly explain the strategies and their benefits for kindergarten children. In one part of the book she wasted 3 pages to discuss what she does at circle time; what a waste of trees. The information is kind of resourceful, but you're better off reading Debbie Miller's "Reading with Meaning: Teaching Comprehension in the Primary Grades." This is literately the type of book that you read and throw it in your closet forever. Thank God I only paid 1 cent for it.

I’ve had this book for years and have never read all of it. It has some useful information, but as previous reviewers have said, the pearls are hidden amongst a lot of unnecessary wordiness. if you are looking for a book with strategies you can immediately use this isn’t that book. It’s not a bad, just not immediately useable which is why I put it down for so long.

This book is a great resource for early childhood educators! I had the great opportunity to take a reading comprehension class from one of the authors, Ruth Shagoury. This book came in handy while planning for my own kindergarten class in how to implement comprehension strategies. I recommend this book to all pre-K and Kindergarten teachers!

A rare book on an often overlooked subject. Some excellent techniques that prove to be very helpful in the classroom. However, they are hidden in 100 pages of bluster. The authors reminisce about how they cried after a comprehension breakthrough and recount in minute detail the nuance of their classes in a very dry uninspiring manner. Such a lack of brevity puts this potentially powerful book out of the reach of time poor teacher.