First Grade Readers

by Parsons, Stephanie; Collins, Kathy

• ISBN13: 9780325017280
• ISBN10: 032501728X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-07-29
• Publisher: HEINEMANN (T)

Summary

Whether you're new to reading workshop or seeking continuity with your school's intermediate-grades curriculum, the units of study in Stephanie Parsons' First Grade Readershelp make the road to independence shorter for your students. Reading achievement improves not with increased testing but with increased reading. And not just any reading, but repeated reading of relatively easy to decode, interesting, self-selected texts. First Grade Readers is a year of classroom-ready, developmentally appropriate instruction for reading workshop. Seven units are filled with the language and lessons of a master teacher and include detailed support structures for: u Goal-Setting: specific rationales and instructional focal points u Getting Ready to Teach: ideas for planning, organization, and materials u Notes on Demonstration: techniques for modeling your reading to students u Teaching the Units: guidance on minilessons, conferences, and mid-workshop teaching points u Reflecting and Celebrating: As a literacy consultant, a former staff developer with Lucy Calkins and the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, and a former teacher, Stephanie Parsons loves working alongside teachers and children to discover new ways of teaching. She hopes you will feel the power of transformative teaching along with your students. Stephanie is a coauthor of Units of Study for Primary Writing as well the author of the Heinemann titles First Grade Writers and Second Grade Writers.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Becoming a Community of Readers	p. 8
Making Sense of Those Little Black Marks	p. 28
Bringing Books to Life	p. 53
Reading with a Wide-Awake Mind	p. 70
Reading to Learn	p. 93
Sounding Like Readers	p. 117
Planning for Independence and Summer Reading	p. 136
Student Handouts	p. 147
Websites to Help Foster Reading	p. 153
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