Reading Reconsidered: A Practical Guide to Rigorous Literacy Instruction

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. This Core Of The Core Shows How To Teach Students To Read Harder Texts, Closely Read Texts Rigorously And Intentionally, Read Nonfiction More Effectively, And Write More Effectively In Direct Response To Texts. 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. 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.-- Part 1. The Core Of The Core -- 1. Text Selection -- 2. Close Reading -- 3. Reading Nonfiction, The Challenge Of Background Knowledge -- 4. Writing For Reading -- Part 2. The Fundamentals -- 5. Approaches To Reading: Reading More, Reading Better -- 6. Vocabulary Instruction: Breadth And Depth -- 7. Reading Systems -- 8. Toward Intellectual Autonomy. Doug Lemov, Colleen Driggs, Erica Woolway. Accompanying Dvd-rom Contains Video Clips In Mp4 Format. Includes Index. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.