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Building Bridges of Understanding is a whole school approach to the teaching of comprehension devised by Dr. Ann Courtney of the University of Hartford, Connecticut, Dr. Martin Gleeson, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick and nine schools in the Munster area.

Drawing on current research regarding effective comprehension instruction its primary focus is the teaching of comprehension, with the ultimate aim of enabling children to become self-regulated strategic readers.
To this end eight key comprehension strategies are identified, namely, prediction, visualisation, making connections, questioning, clarifying, determining importance, inferring and synthesising. Each strategy is explicitly modelled through a think aloud process using high quality fiction and non-fiction picture books. Children’s understanding of each individual strategy is supported by Comprehension Process Motions which are hand movements that help to concretise abstract unseen cognitive processes thus reinforcing the learning through a kinaesthetic pathway.

Children’s understanding is further consolidated by the development of Anchor Charts in child friendly language as an aide memoire to the application of each individual strategy. Teacher support is gradually withdrawn as children learn to apply the strategies in supportive collaborative mixed ability groups. Such groups provide support for children in word identification, vocabulary and comprehension in a mutually supportive setting.

The instructional approach described in the manual is accompanied by three compact discs to provide examples of the individual strategies and group work in an Irish context with a variety of class levels.

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Publisher : Walker Books
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Publisher : Walker Books Ltd
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Author : Rosen, M
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Author : Browne, Anthony
Publisher : Walker Books Ltd
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Author : Kerr, Judith
Publisher : Harper Collins C...
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Author : Morpurgo, Michael
Publisher : Walker
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Author : Morpurgo, Michael
Publisher : Harper Collins C...
Ages : 11 to 13 Sixth Class
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Author : Murphy, Jill
Publisher : Walker Books Ltd
Ages : 4 to 5 Junior Infants
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Author : Davies, Nicola
Publisher : Walker
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Publisher : Walker Books
Ages : 8 to 9 Third Class
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Author : Davies, Nicola
Publisher : Walker
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Author : Browne, Anthony
Publisher : Walker
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Author : Browne, Anthony
Publisher : Walker Books Ltd
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Author : Fleischman, Paul
Publisher : Walker Books Ltd
Ages : 4 to 5 Junior Infants
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Author : Russell, Natalie
Publisher : Bloomsbury
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Author : Fleischman, Paul
Publisher : Candlewick Press...
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Author : Fleischman, Paul
Publisher : HarperTrophy
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Author : Murphy, Jill
Publisher : Macmillan Childr...
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Publisher : Red Fox
Ages : 5 to 6 Senior Infants
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Author : McEwan, Ian
Publisher : Red Fox
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Author : Wormell, Chris
Publisher : Penguin Random H...
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Author : Wiesner, David
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
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Author : Browne, Anthony
Publisher : Red Fox
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Author : Wiesner, David
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
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Author : Duffy, Carol Ann
Publisher : Barefoot Books
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Publisher : Bloomsbury
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Author : Walters, Catherine
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Author : Davies, Nicola
Publisher : Walker Books Ltd
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Author : Browne, Anthony
Publisher : Walker Books Ltd
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Author : Mckee, D
Publisher : Red Fox
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