Mosaic of Thought
Teaching Comprehension in a Reader's Workshop
By Ellin Oliver Keene and Susan Zimmermann

Format: Paperback, 255 pages
Publication Date: 2007 (second edition)
ISBN: 0-435-07237-4

Ellin Oliver Keene and Susan Zimmermann have returned with a new edition of Mosaic of Thought that features 70 percent new material. When the first edition published ten years ago, Mosaic of Thought became a runaway best seller as the first book to explicitly describe the use and benefits of strategy-based comprehension instruction. Since then comprehension strategy instruction has exploded, leading to numerous inspiring variations on Mosaic’s instructional principles, as well as a widening of the comprehension research base. Now the second edition offers up-to-the-minute insight for classroom teachers, literacy coaches, and school leaders everywhere, and reminds everyone of precisely what effective, long-lasting comprehension teaching looks like.

The strategies presented in Mosaic of Thought serve as the cornerstone of the PEBC professional development model. The theories presented in this book are the basis for all other books written by PEBC Staff Developers.