To Understand by Ellin Keene - 5 stars

This book will really make you think! Ellin Keene, the author of Mosaic of Thought, takes the reader through the thought processes she has used to reach her current level of understanding about comprehension instruction. She questions some of the concepts that came out of Mosaic and takes other concepts farther. The analogies she uses throughout the book are connected to art and travel. Keene's emphasis is on the purpose of comprehension - to understand. We teach strategies so that students can use them to aid in understanding text. She gets right to heart of comprehension by peeling away the layers that seem to get in the way or cause us to lose our focus.