Mosaic of Thought: Teaching Comprehension in a Reader's Workshop
8 best books like Mosaic of Thought: Teaching Comprehension in a Reader's Workshop (Ellin Oliver Keene): The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child, Encounter, Growing Readers: Units of Study in the Primary Classroom, Guided Reading: Good First Teaching for All Children, In the Middle: New Understandings about Writing, Reading, and Learning, Book Love: Developing Depth, Stamina, and Passion in Adolescent Readers, Igniting a Passion for Reading: Successful Strategies for Building Lifetime Readers, Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding
The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
| Author | Donalyn Miller |
| ISBN | 0470372273 |
Known for her popular blog, "The Book Whisperer," Donalyn Miller is a dedicated teacher who says she has yet to meet a child she couldn't turn into a reader. Her approach, however, is not conventional. Miller dispenses with the more traditional reading instruction of book reports and comprehension...
When Christopher Columbus landed on the island of San Salvador in 1492, what he discovered were the Taino Indians. Told from a young Taino boy’s point of view, this is a story of how the boy tried to warn his people against welcoming the strangers, who seemed more interested in golden ornaments than...
| Author | Kathy Collins |
| ISBN | 1571103732 |
Primary-grade teachers face an important challenge: teaching children how to read while enabling them to build good habits so they fall in love with reading. Many teachers find the independent reading workshop to be the component of reading instruction that meets this challenge because it makes...
| Author | Irene C. Fountas |
| ISBN | 0435088637 |
Among the many changes to sweep American literacy education has been a move toward whole class instruction. Nonetheless, children still bring to literacy a wide range of experiences and competencies. How, then, might teachers best support a literate community yet still meet the needs of individual...
| Author | Nancie Atwell |
| ISBN | 0867093749 |
The best way to teach is to learn together with the students. One of the rare breed of teachers who do know this is Nancie Atwell.
- The New York TimesReading this book can be revolutionary. . . . Atwell leads us to new understandings of teaching and learning in a workshop classroom.
- Voices from...
| Author | Penny Kittle |
| ISBN | 0325042950 |
"I believe each of my students must craft an individual reading life of challenge, whim, curiosity, and hunger, and I've discovered that it is not too late in high school to lead a non-reader to reading. It's never too late."-Penny Kittle
Penny Kittle wants us to face the hard truths every English...
| Author | Steven L. Layne |
| ISBN | 1571103856 |
When teaching reading, American classrooms often focus exclusively on skills instruction. But how can you teach the "how" without the "why?" In his new book, Igniting a Passion for Reading, Steve Layne shows teachers how to develop readers who are not only motivated to read great books, but also love...
| Author | Stephanie Harvey |
| ISBN | 1571103104 |
Places visualization, a comprehension technique I use in my work with kids as the centerpiece of a spectrum of increasingly complex strategies for understanding: Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Determining Importance and Synthesizing. While there's almost too much...
