1st Edition
Readers Front and Center Helping All Students Engage with Complex Text
By Dorothy Barnhouse
Copyright 2014
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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Every teacher wants and expects his or her students to be reading increasingly complex texts, yet sometimes the gap between our expectations and our students' abilities seems wide and deep. It's tempting to look at that gap and step in to fill it for them, but then we'd be doing most of the heavy lifting the understanding, analysis, and interpretation that our students should be learning for... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1: Noticing Smarter; Chapter 2: Deciding Smarter; Chapter 3: Teaching Smarter; Chapter 4: Teaching Smarter; Chapter 5: Teaching Smarter; Chapter 6: Teaching Smarter; Conclusion
Biography
Dorothy Barnhouse has been a literacy consultant in elementary and secondary schools for more than two decades. She coauthored What Readers Really Do with Vicki Vinton (Heinemann, 2012) and brings a deep love of reading and writing to her work. Dorothy lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters.
"As I read Readers Front & Center, I felt as if I were visiting with a teacher who has faced the same struggles and challenges that we all face and has found some strategies and ideas that work. And she was spilling her secrets." - MiddleWeb
