Growing Up to Be President Discussion Guide
§ Knowledge acquisition is the #1 factor contributing to students' reading comprehension growth.
§ Individual so-called "comprehension skills" have NO correspondence to any thinking processes, according to cognitive psychology.
§ The only way for students to gain knowledge is to
discuss what they've read,
which helps them process new concepts and ideas.
§
Class discussions move new knowledge into long-term memory,
where it becomes an active support for reading comprehension.
offers:
- 45 pages of
comprehension questions,
one page for each president's essay in
Growing Up to Be President
, offering 3-5 questions each
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7 primary sources
support the president's essay in
Growing Up to Be President,
with vocabulary development and sourcing questions.
9 mini lessons,
with 1-3 questions, on topics that are mentioned in
Growing Up to Be President.
5 infographics
with 1-3 questions, to expand on topics that are mentioned in
Answer Key
and Bibliography in the back of the book
Author
Mary Carol Ghislin spent 30 years in educational publishing as a writer, Senior Editor, and Product Manager for several Fortune 500 companies, and taught English for 14 years. She holds an M.A. in Literature from Northwestern University from which she received the Distinguished Thesis Award. Her previous published titles for children include
Machines of the Ancient World
(English, Spanish, and Mandarin), and
Organization Is the Key,
a history of the development of the periodic table.