Stephanie Harvey

Annie Ward

When it comes to readers who need the most support, teachers can't afford to waste time using fragmented, skill-and-drill interventions that don't work. Literacy specialists Stephanie Harvey and Annie Ward demonstrate how to "table the labels" and use detailed formative assessments to craft targeted, personalized instruction that enable striving readers to do what they need above all - to find books they love and engage in voluminous reading. Loaded with ready-to-go lessons, routines, and "actions," as well as the latest research, this book is a must for any teacher who strives to make every reader a thriving reader.

How to Grow Confident, Capable Readers

From Striving to Thriving

Harvey Daniels

Serves as a guide for teachers who want to realize the benefits of well-structured, student-led, cross-curricular projects.

Inquiry Circles in Action

Comprehension & Collaboration

Anne Goudvis

Describes strategies teachers can use to promote reading comprehension in students from kindergarten through eighth grade; and includes examples of student work, illustrations, and other reference tools.

Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement

Strategies that Work

Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding

Strategies That Work

Grades 3-6 "Active literacy is the means to deeper understanding and diverse, flexible thinking, and is the hallmark of our approach to teaching and learning. Reading, writing, talking, listening, and investigating are the cornerstones of active literacy. The Toolkit captures the language of thinking we use to explicitly teach kids to comprehend the wide variety of informational text they encounter. Through the Toolkit lessons, we demonstrate how the kids adopt and adapt our teaching language as their learning language." - Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis In The Comprehension Toolkit, Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis have created an intensive curricular resource designed to help students understand, respond to, and learn from nonfiction text. By actively engaging students in reading, talking, and writing about information and ideas, The Comprehension Toolkit provides a foundation for developing independent readers and learners across the curriculum and throughout the school year. Framed around the Gradual Release of Responsibility approach, The Comprehension Toolkit provides scaffolded comprehension strategy instruction. First through modeling and guided practice, then releasing responsibility to students through collaborative practice, independent practice, and application, the Toolkit's lessons teach students to use comprehension strategies flexibly in a variety of texts, topics, and subject areas. Professional Support A series of resources introduce, support, and extend the Toolkit's core lessons. The Teacher's Guide outlines the thinking behind the Toolkit and describes its components, instructional design, and assessment options. The Resources for The Comprehension Toolkit CD-ROM provides an array of print and video resources including a photographic overview of an Active Literacy Classroom, downloadable research articles, templates, assessment masters, and full-colour lesson text. Extend and Investigate helps you extend the Toolkit's comprehension strategies across the curriculum and throughout the year. It provides strategies for content area reading and research, textbook reading, test reading, and a variety of practical bibliographies. 6 Strategy Clusters The 26 strategy lessons in The Comprehension Toolkit are organized into six Strategy Cluster books. Informational Text A series of short, engaging, real-world informational texts provide an effective context for using and practising the Toolkit's comprehension strategies. The Source Book of Short Text provides two kinds of nonfiction text: Lesson Text, 24 articles from children's magazines; and Nonfiction Short Text, 43 short informational articles specially written for the Toolkit.

Language and Lessons for Active Literacy

The Comprehension Toolkit

Reading is a social act. We all love to talk about what we read, whether sharing the latest novel with a friend, reacting to an outrageous editorial with a colleague, or exploring a picture book with a child. Kids are no different?when they have opportunities to think and talk about their reading, they explode with thoughts, questions, and ideas. The Read, Write, and Talk practice provides a framework for reading, merging thinking with the information, recording thoughts, and talking about what has been read. This lively video lets you join Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis, authors of Strategies That Work, in an intermediate-grade reading workshop where students engage in real-world literacy. In this classroom, kids use comprehension strategies to better understand what they read. They grapple with issues, information and ideas that provoke thinking and spur lively conversation. The goal of Read, Write, and Talk is to give kids a chance to talk purposefully about their reading. As information is shared with others, thinking evolves and comprehension deepens. Read, Write, and Talk is an on-going practice, not a stand-alone lesson. Once students have learned this process, it is used across the curriculum and throughout the year, with science and social studies reading, literature study, and even with textbooks. It is an authentic process that replicates what "real" readers do, and supports and encourages kids to ask more questions, ponder information, and better understand what they read. In the video Steph models a complete Read, Write, and Talk lesson including: teacher modeling: Steph models her own thinking with a short article on a current topic of interest, stopping to jot down her inner conversation, questions, connections, new learning, and other observations; guided practice and discussion: During the shared reading, Steph asks kids to jot down their thinking and turn and talk to each other about information in the text. As kids share their thinking, Steph guides the discussion towards an understanding of bigger issues, ideas, and questions raised by the article; independent practice: After kids have practiced the process, Steph invites them to choose from among three articles to try this on their own. They read the article, record their thinking, and talk about what they read; sharing: The kids come together to share their responses, including new learning, big ideas, and lingering questions. They also discuss how the process of working and thinking together adds to their understanding. end-of-tape debrief: A conversation among colleagues about the Read, Write, and Talk practice and how it supports thinking and learning.

A Practice to Enhance Comprehension

Read, Write, and Talk

Eugene

I am no expert on this matter but I believed in my experience in this a lot of us had to make a lot of changes in our environment that did change our lives. I believe if more of our young folks make this kind of decision things would be better off I know its not easy making changes in your life but if things are not going the way you want it to go change it and in my view changing your environment can change your life. What does environment mean it means a lot of different things that can relate to your life. Myself and Steph have been together over 25 years and we have been threw a lot and different changes in environment have been a part of it but with Faith and Love we moved forward to have a wonderful life together so enjoy our novel and look out for my second one. Thanks and God Bless You All!

A True Extraordinary Experience to Life and Death Trials and Tribulations

My Coma Life

Revised ed. of: Comprehension & collaboration.

Inquiry Circles for Curiosity, Engagement, and Understanding

Comprehension and Collaboration, Revised Edition

A guide to bringing nonfiction into the curriculum in third through eighth-grade classrooms, with strategies and ideas for reading nonfiction, conducting research, and writing reports.

Reading, Writing, and Research in Grades 3-8

Nonfiction Matters

Gillian Trinder

The Little Mermaid finds a hidden map in a sea wreck. But the long lost secret creates a lot of trouble for her. There are others taking an interest in it including a thieving jackdaw, a crafty spider and greedy sailors! Can the sky and sea friends help the Little Mermaid every time that it goes missing?Mermaid Tales Picture Book Series 14 Exciting Titles in this Series!(1) The Adventures of a Little Mermaid(2) The Three Little Mermaids and the Birthday Present(3) The Big Mermaid and the Sea - Dragon(4) The Big Mermaid and the Water - Sprite have a Party!(5) The Little Mermaid and the Long Lost Secret(6) The Little Mermaid and the Aquarium(7) The Little Mermaid and the Adventure of the Coral Reef(8) The Mermaids and the Royal Visit(9) The Little Mermaid and the Runaway Princess(10) The King of the Mermaids and the Silver Trident(11) The Little Princess and the Adventure of the Sea-Snakes(12) The Dragon-Smith and the Crown of the Mermaid King(13) The Dragon-Smith of Komodo Island(14) The Dragon-Smith and the Jeweller of Lossac

The Little Mermaid and the Long Lost Secret

In this new edition of their groundbreaking book Strategies That Work, Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis share the work and thinking they've done since the second edition came out a decade ago and offer new perspectives on how to explicitly teach thinking strategies so that students become engaged, thoughtful, independent readers. Thirty new lessons and new and revised chapters shine a light on children's thinking, curiosity, and questions. Steph and Anne tackle close reading, close listening, text complexity, and critical thinking in a new chapter on building knowledge through thinking-intensive reading and learning. Other fully revised chapters focus on digital reading, strategies for integrating comprehension and technology, and comprehension across the curriculum. The new edition is organized around three sections: Part I provides readers with a solid introduction to reading comprehension instruction, including the principles that guide practice, suggestions for text selection, and a review of recent research that underlies comprehension instruction. Part II contains lessons to put these principles into practice for all areas of reading comprehension. Part III shows you how to integrate comprehension instruction across the curriculum and the school day, particularly in science and social studies. Updated bibliographies, including the popular "Great Books for Teaching Content," are accessible online. Since the first publication of Strategies That Work, more than a million teachers have benefited from Steph and Anne's practical advice on creating classrooms that are incubators for deep thought. This third edition is a must-have resource for a generation of new teachers--and a welcome refresher for those with dog-eared copies of this timeless guide to teaching comprehension.

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