چکیده (انگلیسی):

A higher education development team consisting of four professors of reading at two universities
designed a set of lessons for possible use in helping teachers or preservice teachers develop
strategies to produce effective comprehension skills of elementary students. These techniques were
first used with undergraduate candidates and then revised to use with reading coaches in the
literacy demonstration sites around the state of Alabama. The author describes a set of four
interventions based upon this work that was used with graduate preservice teachers in a reading
methods course. Three areas were emphasized in this investigation: changing preservice teachers’
misconceptions about the meaning of comprehension, helping them understand what readers do to
comprehend text, and teaching them how comprehension can be explicitly taught to elementary
students. Through these interventions, the preservice teachers gained a better understanding of
how to teach comprehension more effectively to K – 6 students.