Reading reconsidered : a practical guide to rigorous literacy instruction /

The authors address the anxiety-inducing world of Common Core State Standards, distilling from those standards four key ideas that help hone teaching practices both generally and in preparation for assessments. This "core of the Core" shows how to teach students to read harder texts, close...

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Main Authors: Lemov, Doug, 1967- (Author), Driggs, Colleen (Author), Woolway, Erica, 1979- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, A Wiley Brand, [2016]
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. The core of the core
  • 1. Text selection
  • 2. Close reading
  • 3. Reading nonfiction, the challenge of background knowledge
  • 4. Writing for reading
  • Part 2. The fundamentals
  • 5. Approaches to reading: reading more, reading better
  • 6. Vocabulary instruction: breadth and depth
  • 7. Reading systems
  • 8. Toward intellectual autonomy.