Teaching Students to Read Like Detectives explores the important relationship between text, learner, and learning. Authors Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Diane Lapp offer comprehensive strategies to establish literacy in a discussion-based classroom where students read closely, think critically, and engage deeply with their own ideas. Using this thorough resource, all K-12 educators can pre pare students to become the sophisticated readers, writers, and thinkers they need to be to achieve higher learning. Investigate how educators can create inquiry-based, reflective classrooms; Provide student and teacher dialogues, teacher modeling, and graphic organizers; Offer sample assignments, organizational routines, and instructional strategies; Illustrate how to build an understanding of literary and expository texts; Suggest techniques for productive and safe classroom discussions.

Introduction: comprehension occurs through text-based analysis and discussion --Chapter 1. Readers and texts: why both are necessary for understanding -- Chapter 2. Argumentation: gateway to text-based analysis and discussion -- Chapter 3. Analyzing and discussing narrative texts -- Chapter 4. Analyzing and discussing expository texts -- Chapter 5. Analyzing and discussing new-media texts.