After fifteen years of public school teaching, both in regular education and special education classrooms, Stephanie worked for twelve years as a staff developer for the Denver based Public Education and Business Coalition (PEBC), a partnership of leaders from education and business, who support innovation in public schools. In one kindergarten we know well, the kids spend several weeks at the beginning of the year "marinating" in nonfiction of all varieties, the classroom awash in nonfiction. Think back to the reports you wrote in school. Once kids have a thorough understanding of the task, we send them off to read and respond on their own, with a partner, or in small groups. Engagement soars when kids listen to, respond to, and challenge each others' thinking. So the teacher begins Toolkit instruction for them with the Infer & Visualize strategy book. We are devoted to helping teachers inspire deep and creative thinking in their students. We are not adequately preparing them for a nonfiction world. Find all the books, read about the author, and more.
While this text is geared for grades 3 - 8, I found the information applicable to high school as well--not so much the projects and practical strategies, but the overall philosophy which is that kids need to read more nonfiction and they need better choices in order to write good nonfiction. The teacher stops occasionally to provide time for them to turn to each other and talk. It's so obvious; when we think about and actively use what we are learning, we remember it. After teaching all of the kids the lessons in the Monitor Comprehension Strategy Book, the teachers teach Toolkit lessons in small, needs-based guided reading groups. You can't get much more explicit or robust than the Toolkit for comprehension instruction. Steph is the coauthor (with Anne Goudvis) of Strategies That Work, now in its third edition (2017), as well as several Stenhouse videos (see titles to the left). New to the Toolkit’s Second Edition, Content Literacy: Lessons and Texts for Comprehension Across the Curriculum contains new lessons that integrate and extend all six strategies across the curriculum.
They pay attention to the inner conversation they have with text, leaving written tracks of their thinking to monitor their understanding. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness.
In one second-grade classroom, Toolkit strategies are introduced as an integral part of science and social studies instruction. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing, and Research in Grades 3-8. Kids notice new information and ask questions as they read and view all these different sources. For them, this new edition will be a welcome extension of that work. Teach Writing Well: How to Assess Writing, Invigorate Instruction, Rethink ... Literacy Essentials: Engagement, Excellence and Equity for All Learners, Literacy Work Stations: Making Centers Work, To Know and Nurture a Reader: Conferring with Confidence and Joy, Revision Decisions: Talking Through Sentences and Beyond, Spaces & Places: Designing Classrooms for Literacy, The Daily 5: Fostering Literacy in the Elementary Grades, Second Edition, SPARK!
Tubs of nonfiction books cover the tables.
We bring in text we are actually reading to illustrate how we use comprehension strategies to make sense of and understand our own reading. Something went wrong. Existing users of the original Comprehension Toolkit series: You may purchase the new Content Literacy lesson books as well as the corresponding new trade book packs to fill in your existing resources.
Responding in both small and large groups provides a chance to learn from each other and hear each other's perspectives, opinions, thoughts, and concerns. Students learn to use these strategies flexibly, across a variety of texts, topics, and subject areas.
Good news! Because of the workshop format, students would be expected to be reading, writing, thinking, talking, making, and learning across the entire day. We provide explicit instruction through modeling and guided practice, and then provide opportunities for independent practice and application. I would highly recommend Nonfiction Matters to all who teach language arts from third grade through high school. Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2017.
I have been fascinated for three years by Stephanie Harvey’s claim that school days would function well with four workshop periods: “Reading, Writing, Math, and Research (science/social studies). Full of practical suggestions to help you bring nonfiction into your curriculum, Nonfiction Matters:presents strategies for understanding expository text and conducting meaningful research;offers ideas for organizing and writing accurate, effective nonfiction from idea to finished presentation;advances the importance of teacher modeling and guided practice in instructional delivery;provides a list of inquiry tools and resources—both print and electronic;suggests ways to facilitate project-based learning and assess the projects as they develop;includes bibliographies of nonfiction children's books by subject and genre and lists of recommended magazines. Kids are up close, and we use large-format text such as big books and posters like the TFK posters as we read to and with the children. Teaching and learning involves a process of co-constructing meaning. Reports were an exercise in recopying, demanding little creativity and thought. The update includes the original resources as well a few new additions. For a summer school literacy guide that will help you plan a summer school curriculum and assess student progress click here. We might record our questions, confusions, thoughts, or highlight and underline important information, circle unfamiliar words, or star something we want to remember. We have yet to see a basal program with robust, in-depth comprehension instruction at its core. Her books include Strategies That Work, Comprehension and Collaboration, and Nonfiction Matters. Please try again. . "
Subsequent lessons to review and practice thinking strategies can be much shorter, more in the realm of minilessons.
We specialize in school and district-based professional development, with an emphasis on reading and writing instruction in grades PreKindergarten through 12. To build background knowledge, kids read and respond to a variety of nonfiction, including books, charts, videos, maps, newspaper articles, and online sources.
The reading strategies in The Comprehension Toolkit are taught through a gradual release of responsibility framework. She currently serves as a literacy consultant to schools and districts throughout the country.
Stenhouse Publishers; First Printing edition (January 1, 1998), Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2016. Full of practical suggestions to help you bring nonfiction into your curriculum, Nonfiction Matters: Why is nonfiction almost a guaranteed success? Sold by NewOrigins and ships from Amazon Fulfillment. She speaks on reading comprehension; active literacy; nonfiction reading; writing and research; inquiry based learning; reading and writing workshop; and the role of passion, wonder, and engagement in teaching and learning. The key to teaching with nonfiction is passion, for children are passionate inquirers, and nonfiction fuels their curiosity and their demand for knowledge and understanding of the world.
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