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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 themselves.
So how can teachers reverse this trend and ensure that our students are fully entering, absorbing, and experiencing texts? How can we make sure they're making complex meaning "independently and proficiently," as the Common Core State Standards require?
Readers Front and Center answers these questions by framing instruction that starts with the student. You'll learn how to do the following:
Filled with examples of one-on-one conferences, small groups, and whole-class scenarios, this essential book provides an accessible and inspiring model of how and why we need to put students at the front and centre of our teaching.
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Learning to Listen
Chapter 1: Noticing Smarter: Researching What we Don't Know
Chapter 2: Deciding Smarter: Not Teaching -- Yet
Chapter 3: Teaching Smarter: Noticing and Naming
Chapter 4: Teaching Smarter: Stepping Students Up to Do More Complex Thinking in Independent Reading
Chapter 5: Teaching Smarter: Stepping Students Up to Do More Complex Thinking in Small Groups
Chapter 6: Teaching Smarter: Stepping Students Up to Do More Complex Thinking in Read-Aloud and Shared Reading
Conclusion: On Standards, Standardization, and Agency
Appendixes 1-8
References
Index
