TY - JOUR
T1 - Transactional instruction of comprehension strategies: The Montgomery County, Maryland SAIL program.
AU - Pressley, Michael
AU - Almasi, Janice
AU - Schuder, Ted
AU - Bergman, Janet
AU - Hite, Sheri
AU - El-Dinary, Pamela
PY - 1994
Y1 - 1994
N2 - A comprehension strategies instruction program called Students Achieving Independent Learning (SAIL) is described. In SAIL, strategies teaching is long term and complex, with students taught to coordinate traditional memory and comprehension strategies with interpretive processes. Consistent with reader‐response theories, we refer to this approach as transactional strategies instruction because student‐teacher‐text transactions are the heart of daily teaching. How such teaching differs with student experience in the program is illustrated by discussing SAIL instruction in Grade 1, Grade 2, and Grade 4 lessons. We highlight the unique features of SAIL by comparing it with the comprehension strategies instruction encouraged in some contemporary basal series.
AB - A comprehension strategies instruction program called Students Achieving Independent Learning (SAIL) is described. In SAIL, strategies teaching is long term and complex, with students taught to coordinate traditional memory and comprehension strategies with interpretive processes. Consistent with reader‐response theories, we refer to this approach as transactional strategies instruction because student‐teacher‐text transactions are the heart of daily teaching. How such teaching differs with student experience in the program is illustrated by discussing SAIL instruction in Grade 1, Grade 2, and Grade 4 lessons. We highlight the unique features of SAIL by comparing it with the comprehension strategies instruction encouraged in some contemporary basal series.
U2 - 10.1080/1057356940100102
DO - 10.1080/1057356940100102
M3 - Article
SN - 1057-3569
VL - 10
SP - 5
EP - 19
JO - Reading and Writing Quarterly
JF - Reading and Writing Quarterly
IS - 1
ER -