Fifty award-winning literacy educators contribute more than thirty-five “engagements”—student-focused, classroom-tested instructional and assessment actions—to strengthen the reader in every child, while reinforcing one essential fact: reading is about constructing meaning. The book is organized in a four-part framework: Knowing Reading, Knowing Readers, Engaging Readers, and Knowing the Language to Use.
Each engagement includes:
- A brief introduction
- Why?—Benefits of the engagement
- Who?—Students that would benefit most from the engagement
- How?—Materials and instructions for effective implementation
- Closure/Stepping Back—Concluding the engagement
- How’s It Going? Informal Assessment
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