Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading
10 best books like Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading (Kylene Beers): The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child, Captain Superlative, Write Beside Them: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High School Writing, In the Middle: New Understandings about Writing, Reading, and Learning, Write Like This, Mechanically Inclined: Building Grammar, Usage, and Style into Writer's Workshop, Book Love: Developing Depth, Stamina, and Passion in Adolescent Readers, Disrupting Thinking: Why How We Read Matters, Falling in Love with Close Reading: Lessons for Analyzing Texts--And Life, The Reading Strategies Book: Your Everything Guide to Developing Skilled Readers
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...
"Have no fear, citizens! Captain Superlative is here to make all troubles disappear!"
Red mask, blue wig, silver swimsuit, rubber gloves, torn tights, high top sneakers and . . . a cape? Who would run through the halls of Deerwood Park Middle School dressed like this? And why?
Janey-quick...
| Author | Penny Kittle |
| ISBN | 0325010978 |
Please join us in congratulating Penny Kittle for her 2009 NCTE Britton Award for Write Beside Them
"This book is about teaching writing and the gritty particulars of teaching adolescents. But it is also the planning, the thinking, the writing, the journey: all I've been putting into my teaching...
| 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 | Kelly Gallagher |
| ISBN | 1571108963 |
If you want to learn how to shoot a basketball, you begin by carefully observing someone who knows how to shoot a basketball. If you want to be a writer, you begin by carefully observing the work of accomplished writers. Recognizing the importance that modeling plays in the learning process, high school...
| Author | Jeff Anderson |
| ISBN | 1571104127 |
Some teachers love grammar and some hate it, but nearly all struggle to find ways of making the mechanics of English meaningful to kids. As a middle school teacher, Jeff Anderson also discovered that his students were not grasping the basics, and that it was preventing them from reaching their potential...
| 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 | Robert Probst |
| ISBN | 1338132903 |
In their hit books Notice and Note and Reading Nonfiction, Kylene Beers and Bob Probst showed teachers how to help students become close readers. Now, in Disrupting Thinking they take teachers a step further and discuss an on-going problem: lack of engagement with reading. They explain that all too...
| Author | Christopher Lehman |
| ISBN | 0325050848 |
You and your students will fall for close reading. In Falling in Love with Close Reading, Christopher Lehman and Kate Roberts show us that it can be rigorous, meaningful, and joyous. You'll empower students to not only analyze texts but to admire the craft of a beloved book, study favorite songs and videogames,...
The Reading Strategies Book: Your Everything Guide to Developing Skilled Readers
| Author | Jennifer Serravallo |
With hit books that support strategic reading through conferring, small groups, and assessment, Jen Serravallo gets emails almost daily asking, "Isn't there a book of the strategies themselves?" Now there is.
"Strategies make the often invisible work of reading actionable and visible,"...
The Quickwrite Handbook: 100 Mentor Texts to Jumpstart Your Students' Thinking and Writing
| Author | Linda Rief |
| ISBN | 0325098123 |
Helping students put words on a page can be hard enough. "I don't have anything to write about!" they say. And when writing does happen, how do you help them develop these ideas into more effective pieces?
A powerful tool to jumpstart writing
In The Quickwrite Handbook, master teacher...
