Why Do I Have to Read This? : Literacy Strategies to Engage Our Most Reluctant Students / Cris Tovani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tovani, Cris, author.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reading--Remedial teaching.

Reading.

Reading, Psychology of.

Teaching--Methodology.

Teaching.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 220 pages) : color illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, [2024]

Summary:

"The book uses the metaphor of a mask (Invisibility, Anger, Class Clown, etc.) our most challenging students wear to hide their reasons not to engage in reading and writing"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: I Hate School and I'm Not Wild About You Either

These Kids Don't Care

The Masks Kids Wear

The Mask of the Class Clown

The Mask of Minimal Effort

The Mask of Invisibility

When Am I Fully Engaged?

Circles of Engagement: Behavioral, Emotional, and Cognitive

What Comes First?

Back to Our Big Questions

Chapter 2: Wedgies, Drunken Bears, and the Stress of Shortsighted Planning

Trust Them to Think

Our Big Questions

Planning Ahead to Keep from Getting Behind

Winging Workshop

Thinking About the Long and Short of It: Long-Term Planning that Guides the Day-to-Day Work

Curriculum Is More Than the "Stuff" We Teach

CYA Structures: Harnessing the Power of the Six Ts: Topic, Tasks, Targets, Text, Tend to Me, and Time

The Six Ts Organized by Small Bites: Topic, Tasks, Targets, Text, Tend to Me, and Time

Long-Term Planning Components that Remove the Masks

Chapter 3: The Masks of Anger and Apathy

The Mask of Anger

The Mask of Apathy

Teacher as Chief Connector

Connecting Kids to Content

Connecting Students to Each Other

Connections to Text

What Works Best to Connect Kids to Text?

Where Do I Find Text That Kids Will Read?

Connections Affect Anger and Apathy

What Works? Five CYA Strategies That Help Students Take Off the Masks of Anger and Apathy

Chapter 4: The Mask of the Class Clown

Why Text Matters

Tending to Text Selection

Tending to Topics

Who Cares About the Rock Cycle?

Rodderick and the Rocks

Fifty-Two Stories High

What Makes a Topic Compelling?

I Don't Want to Get Political

Why Controversy Matters

The View from the Street

What Works? Five CYA Strategies That Help Students Put Away Their Class Clown Mask.

Chapter 5: The Mask of Minimal Effort

If Only I Could Read My Teacher's Mind

Showing What Success Looks Like by Analyzing a Model

Authentic Artifacts and Mentors: Meet the Guest Teacher

Working Smarter, Not Harder, with Learning Targets

The Open Letter Learning Target Rubric

Minilessons Students Need to Keep Going

Real Work: The Need for Audience and Authenticity

What Works? Five CYA Strategies That Remove the Masks of Minimal Eor ff t

Chapter 6: The Mask of Invisibility

Talking Isn't the Only Way to Show Thinking

Making the Invisible Visible

What They Are and What They Aren't

Design Structures That Make Thinksheets Versatile

Eight Go-To Structures for Thinksheets

Provocative Question Reflections

Double-Entry Diaries

Inner Voice Sheets

Synthesis Thinksheets

Exit Tickets

Vocabulary Builders

Silent Reading Thinksheets

Back to the Big Questions

What Works? Five CYA Structures That Help Students Remove the Masks of Invisibility

Chapter 7: When You Care, You Fall More

Teachers Wear Masks, Too

A Last Look at Our Big Questions

The Six Ts Are Our Tools

One Last Story

We Determine the Weather

Appendices

Appendix A: Learning Target Rubrics

Appendix B: Double-Entry Diaries

Appendix C: Inner Voice Sheets

Appendix D: Synthesis Sheets

Appendix E: Vocabulary Builders

Appendix F: Silent Reading Response Sheet

Appendix G: Virtual Background Knowledge Placemats

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781003843023

1003843026

9781032683157

1032683155

9781003840060

100384006X

9781625311528

1625311524

OCLC:

1153341033