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Readers front & center : helping all students engage with complex texts / Dorothy Barnhouse.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barnhouse, Dorothy (Dorothy J.), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reading comprehension.
- Cognition in children--Study and teaching.
- Cognition in children.
- Reading (Elementary).
- Reading (Middle school).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (311 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Portland, Maine : Stenhouse Publishers, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Every teacher wants and expects his or her students to be reading increasingly complex texts, yet sometimes the gap between our expectations and our students' abilities seems wide and deep. It's tempting to look at that gap and step in to fill it for them, but then we'd be doing most of the ""heavy lifting""-the understanding, analysis, and interpretation that our students should be learning for themselves. So how can teachers reverse this trend and ensure that our students are fully entering, absorbing, and experiencing texts? How can we make sure they're making complex meaning ""independentl
- Contents:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Learning to Listen; Chapter 1: Noticing Smarter: Researching What We Don't Know; Chapter 2: Deciding Smarter: Not Teaching-Yet; Chapter 3: Teaching Smarter: Noticing and Naming; Chapter 4: Teaching Smarter: Stepping Students Up to Do More Complex Thinking in Independent Reading; Chapter 5: Teaching Smarter: Stepping Students Up to Do More Complex Thinking in Small Groups; Chapter 6: Teaching Smarter: Stepping Students Up to Do More Complex Thinking in Read-Aloud and Shared Reading
- Conclusion: On Standards, Standardization, and AgencyAppendixes 1-8; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-162) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-003-84286-0
- 1-003-83990-8
- 1-03-268217-5
- 1-62531-014-5
- 9781032682174
- OCLC:
- 1403568803
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