Reading Comprehension Resource Book 5 (ELI Series)

Making meaning of what we read is one of the key aspects of literacy, however it's also the one that ends up with the least and very often, uninformed attention in classrooms. As aptly summarized in the introductory write-up, Comprehension in fact, is a complex set of processes that take place collaboratively or simultaneously, and assist the reader meaning-making. Starting with introducing the readers to the concept of Comprehension, the pieces included in the resource book go on to discuss comprehension instruction and related concerns, as well as various strategies one can use in classroom."...every act of reading words implies a previous reading (understanding) of the world and subsequent rereading (through new experiences) of the world. "- Freire, 1985.

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What are Resource Books? About 45 original short-blog pieces, aiming at perspective-building, invited from practitioners and academics from the field, along with and approximately 150 annotations across the five themes; Multilingual Education, Children’s literature, Children’s writing, Decoding of script and Comprehension.

ELI series is a set of resource books and practitioner briefs by ELI (Early Literacy Initiative), TISS, Hyderabad. Comprised of five Resource books and seven Practitioner briefs, this set consists of  writings on themes ranging from decoding, comprehension to multi-lingual education and the use of children’s literature in classrooms, exploring various aspects of language learning and early literacy in India.