1st Edition
Readers Writing Strategy Lessons for Responding to Narrative and Informational Text
By Elizabeth Hale
Copyright 2014
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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When faced with a blank page in their readers' notebooks, students often fall back on what is familiar: summarizing. Despite our best efforts to model through comprehension strategies what good readers do, many students struggle to transfer this knowledge and make it their own when writing independently about books. Readers Writing,' Elizabeth Hale offers ninety-one practical lessons that show... Read more
Chapter 1: Beyond the Book Report; Chapter 2: A Strategy Lesson; Chapter 3: Lessons for Narrative Text; Chapter 4: Comprehension of Nonfiction Text; Chapter 5: Lessons for Nonfiction Text; Chapter 6: Supporting Independence; Chapter 7: Noticing Comprehension Strategies in Student Writing; Chapter 8: Conferring with Reader's Notebooks; Chapter 9: Assessment and Final Thoughts
Biography
Elizabeth Hale is a literacy consultant working with schools and districts around the country and a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She previously taught at Emmanuel College as an instructor in the educational department and worked for nine years in the Boston Public Schools as a literacy coach and classroom teacher. Elizabeth is also the author of Crafting Writers, K-8 (2008).
