30 big-idea lessons for small groups : the teaching framework for any text and every reader / Michael Rafferty, Colleen Morello, Paraskevi Rountos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rafferty, Michael (Reading consultant), author.

Morello, Colleen, author.

Rountos, Paraskevi, author.

Series:

Corwin literacy.

Corwin literacy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reading (Elementary).

Group work in education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 225 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Thirty big-idea lessons for small groups : the teaching framework for ANY text and EVERY reader

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, California : Corwin, [2016]

Summary:

Intermediate grade readers are not an M, an N, or an O-they're idea-wranglers, ready to comprehend when we honor who they are as thinkers first In 30 Big Idea Lessons for Small Groups, educators Rafferty, Morello, and Rountos provide an amazing framework that gets students interacting with texts. You prompt and guide, but they think! Big-Idea groups are the piece that's been missing from small group instruction: engagement from the get-go. Follow this unique 4-part process to develop students' literal, inferential, evaluative, and analytical skills: 1. Engage: Before Reading Using a tactile tool like a topic card or a pyramid, readers literally move ideas around on their small group table as they debate a question related to the text and to big ideas about courage, persistence, love, and honesty, and more. 2. Discuss: During Reading Students read and mark up a short text, exploring questions that get at the author's take on the big idea, noticing key vocabulary, text structure, moments of inference, and more. 3. Deep-See Think: After Reading Students re-read, synthesize, and revise their interpretations together and tweak the tactile tool, based on questions that probe the big idea in new and deeper ways. 4. Connect: After Reading Students summarize, and begin to transfer their understandings to other texts in independent reading and the world beyond, primed for this all-important transfer because they've been engaged in topics that clearly relate to their lives. Tap into 30 lessons organized by text complexity, reproducible forms, assessments, and a bank of engagement tools so you can switch it up. Use these lessons across the year as a warm up to a whole-class novel, to augment your core reading program, to challenge your capable readers and bring your striving readers in to rich yet accessible reading experiences.

Contents:

chapter 1. Big-idea groups : scaffolded reading instruction where engagement rules

chapter 2. The lesson design

chapter 3. The tools of engagement

chapter 4. The 30 lesson planners

chapter 5. Transferring thinking across the day

chapter 6. Assessing readers within and beyond the group

chapter 7. Useful forms and lists for big-idea groups.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781506348629

1506348629

9781506348605

1506348602

9781506348612

1506348610

OCLC:

1001531754