More Than 100 Ways to Learner-Centered Literacy

by Laura Lipton

• ISBN13: 9781412957847
• ISBN10: 1412957842
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-02
• Publisher: Corwin Pr

Summary

This updated edition helps beginning and experienced teachers build vocabulary skills, promote student interaction with relevant activities, strengthen fluency and comprehension, and produce meaningful student assessments.

Table of Contents

Publisher's Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Introduction

Designing a Literate Environment

Learning Language by Using It

Labels, Labels, Everywhere

Where in the Room Is It?

Wordstrings

String 'Em Up

Hang-Ups

Shoe Bag Classification

Word Ribbons

Class Mailbox

Message Center

Personal Word Banks

Building on Students' Experiences

Classroom Libraries

Mainly Menus

Taking Off With Advertising Flyers

Weekly Words

The Living Bulletin Board

Establishing Literacy Work Stations

Work Station Rules

The Key to Knowledge

Housekeeping

Introducing the Writing Work Station

Orchestrating Student Interaction

Buddy Studies: Learning in Pairs

Turn to Your Neighbor and . . .

Level of Learning Reading Partners

Learning Partners

Paired Verbal Fluency

Learning Partner Biographies

Summary Pairs

The King and Queen of Questions

Structuring Small Groups

Story Map Trios

Get the Point

Peer Revision: Learning Together

Peer Editing: Sharing Glows and Grows

Reading Conference: Flexible Student Grouping

Establishing the Climate

Student Preparation

Temperature Checking

Developing the Format

Flexible Groupings

One-on-One

Developing Fluent Comprehension

Developing Skills by Increasing Fluency

Choosing and Using Predictable Text

Innovations on Text

Toot! Toot!

Radio Reading

Say It Like the Character

Reader's Theater

Partners Predict

Opin

Word Splash

Say Something

Extending the Reading Experience

Figures of Speech

Create a Comic

Finding Common Ground

Integrating Instruction

Student-Selected Theme Topics

Civic Projects

Imagine If You Were ...

Nurturing Lifelong Learners

Routines for Reading to, With, and by Children

Read-Alouds

Familiarity Breeds Confidence

We Are Readers: A Class Record

Sustained Silent Reading

Guided Reading

Writing Centers: Reading/Writing Connection

Readers/Writers Workshop

Purposeful Tasks

Published and Unpublished Work

Paths to Publication

Building a Community of Learners

Literature Clubs

Join the Chorus

Mine, Yours, and Ours

Writing Autobiographies

Assessing Student Growth

Kid-Watching in the Classroom

Anecdotal Records

A Nifty Notebook

Sticky Helpers

Individual Student Checklists

Class Checklists

Historical Checklists

Interviews

Open-Ended Questions

Student Portfolios

Crate 'Em Up!

Bulky Bundles

Portfolio Contents

Portfolio-Prompted Planning

Entry Slips

Autobiographies of Work

Biographies of Work

Exhibitions and Performance Tasks

Building in Authenticity

Anchors and Archetypes

Developing a Rubric

Exciting Exhibitions

Leading Learning-Focused Conversations: Strategies for Professional Development

Crafting the Container: Starting, Structuring, and Sustaining Thinking

Simple Stem Completions

T-chart Opposites

3-2-1

Mindful Memorandum

Brainstorm and Pass

Problem-Solving Partnerships

Going Graphic

Learning-Focused Consultation

An Idea Menu

Make Your Thinking Transparent

Patterned Response: What, Why, How

The Big Idea

Categorically Speaking

Sharing Causal Theories

Inviting Thinking: A Sampler of Questions for Literacy Coaching

Questions for Planning

Questions for Reflecting

Questions to Stimulate Discussion

Metaphor and Invention

Resources

Index

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