Reading Reconsidered: A Practical Guide to Rigorous Literacy Instruction

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It’s hard to think of amore relevant question to primary and secondary teachers than how they should read with their class, so although the debate isn’t new, it’s worth recapping and exploring which aspects remain unanswered.

Grounded in advice from effective classrooms nationwide, enhanced with more than 40 video clips, Reading Reconsidered takes you into the trenches with actionable guidance from real-life educators and instructional champions. Our students learn their literature, history, math, science, or art via a firm foundation of strong reading skills. This does not mean that every book needs to be selected using a ‘maximum value for learning’ calculation.It is deliberately designed to enable the teacher to adjust difficulty and reading duration, which may be aweakness of ​ ‘popcorn reading’, which lets students select who will read next. But, Shanahan argues, students need large volumes of practice to improve reading fluency – taking turns one-at-a-time is ahighly inefficient way of providing this. Filled with practical tools, including:A A 44 video clips of exemplar teachers demonstrating the techniques and principles in their classrooms Recommended book lists Downloadable tips and templates on key topics like reading nonfiction, vocabulary instruction, and literary terms and definitions.

Choosing others sheerly for the pleasure of it or on a lark is fine as long as the overall portfolio of books is intentional and balanced.

The latter is advocated in Doug Lemov’s popular ​ ‘ Teach Like aChampion’ series and, most recently, his book ​ ‘ Reading Reconsidered’. Shanahan is Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chi­cago, and has led the US Government’s National Reading Panel. For Shanahan, preferable alternatives include reading in pairs, where students alternate after each paragraph, choral reading, where students and teachers read the same section of the text simultaneously, and repeated reading, where students read the same passage multiple times. Shanahan’s point is that reading aloud is valuable insofar as it improves students’ reading fluency, which is strongly associated with comprehension (e. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.

Names for whole-class reading include ​ ‘Round Robin Reading’, ​ ‘Popcorn Reading’ and ​ ‘Control the Game’. Our results – see below – found that 45% of 1,674 respondents had chosen some form of one-at-a-time reading. The authors also focus on the "fundamentals" of reading instruction--techniques and subject specific tools that reconsider approaches to such essential topics as vocabulary, interactive reading, and student autonomy. Grounded in advice from effective classrooms nationwide, enhanced withA more thanA 40A video clips,A Reading Reconsidered takes you into the trenches with actionable guidance from real-life educators and instructional champions.Reading Reconsidered provides the framework necessary for teachers to ensure that students forge futures as lifelong readers. TEACH YOUR STUDENTS TO READ LIKE CHAMPIONSAWITH RIGOR, INDEPENDENCE, PRECISION, AND INSIGHT The world we are preparing our students to succeed in is one bound together by words and phrases.

The second half of Reading Reconsidered reinforces these principles, coupling them with the 'fundamentals' of reading instruction—a host of techniques and subject specific tools to reconsider how teachers approach such essential topics as vocabulary, interactive reading, and student autonomy. TEACH YOUR STUDENTS TO READ LIKE CHAMPIONS WITH RIGOR, INDEPENDENCE, PRECISION, AND INSIGHT The world we are preparing our students to succeed in is one bound together by words and phrases. Downloadable tips and templates on key topics like reading nonfiction, vocabulary instruction, and literary terms and definitions. While the differences between these variations of one-at-a-time reading should be acknowledged, they all have an underlying turn-by-turn nature. Filled with practical tools and over 40 video clips from real classrooms, this book provides the framework we need to ensure our students forge futures as lifelong readers.

The authors address the anxiety-inducing world of Common Core State Standards, distilling from those standards four key ideas that help hone teaching practices both generally and in preparation for assessments. Reading Reconsidered provokes us into thinking in new ways about that most foundational of academic skills: making sense of the written word. Having completed the reading spine, it was clear and obvious that, although covering the five plagues is a worthwhile target, there are so many other children’s books which are wonderful to study at a primary level, and so I have also included a quick reference guide to Pie Corbett’s free Scholastic reading spine and a range of other ‘go-to’ resources to help you when selecting the right books for your school. The authors offer a fresh perspective on reading that is both intellectually stimulating and relentlessly practical.