1st Edition

Teacher's Toolkit for Independent Reading, Grade 3

by Routledge

Creating strong, independent readers with conferring requires thoughtful planning, active listening, accurate tracking, and personalized follow-up. Many teachers don’t know where to start; planning effective conferring conversations and selecting the right tools can seem daunting. Teachers Gravity Goldberg and Renée Houser understand how overwhelming conferring can be, so they developed the... Read more

Biography

Gravity Goldberg is an international educational consultant and author of five books on teaching. She holds a B.A. and M.Ed. from Boston College and a doctorate in education from Teachers College, Columbia University. She serves as a coach for Seth Godin’s altMBA and is the founding director of Gravity Goldberg, LLC, a team that provides side-by-side coaching for teachers.
 

Renée Houser is a literacy consultant and co-author of the What Do I Teach Readers Tomorrow series of teacher resource books. She holds master’s degrees from both Old Dominion University and Fordham University and is currently studying the Reggio Emila approach to early childhood through the University of California Los Angeles.

"This resource acts like a personal guide to help you set up, sustain, and deepen the reading work in your classroom. To have all of these answers in one place is a bounty for any teacher—the first year starting out or the veteran teacher looking for ways to make the work go better." -- Kate Roberts and Maggie Beattie Roberts, Authors of DIY Literacy: Teaching Tools for Differentiation, Rigor, and Independence

"Teachers will LOVE this tool. It is practical, insightful, and artfully balances the needs of students and the needs of teachers. . . . This toolkit will certainly raise the level of both joy and responsive teaching in the classrooms that it touches."--Kari Yates, Author of Simple Starts and co-author of To Know and Nurture a Reader