Reading Without Limits Teaching Strategies to Build Independent Reading for Life

by Witter, Maddie; Levin, Dave

• ISBN13: 9781118472156
• ISBN10: 1118472152
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-01-04
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

Help for teachers to significantly raise student achievement This handy guide and map gives teachers, schools, and districts the help they need to move their kids to the highest level of fervor, stamina, and love of learning and independent thinking. This book provides a unique structure of choice; shared and guided reading that rigorously prepares students for lifelong reading habits and high level literacy achievement that helps readers get to and through college. Structured in ,"mild" "medium," and "spicy" steps, teachers and school leaders can mix and match the tools presented in order to fit individual needs that can sustainably be put in place in their classrooms as soon as tomorrow. All strategies presented are given from the perspective of what is most immediately helpful, practical, and sustainable. Offers a practical guide for fostering a love of learning and thinking in students Each chapter includes: assessments options; incorporating choice; options for special needs students Aligns with Common Core state standards and includes a chapter on standardized testing Reading Without Limits is written for real teachers (who work late hours grading tests, making bulletin boards, attending basketball games, and getting phone calls about homework) who need to keep things practical!

Author Biography

Maddie Witter is a founding teacher of KIPP Infinity Charter School, one of the top-performing middle schools in New York City. At KIPP Infinity, Maddie taught literacy, and was the school's founding director of instruction where she supervised teacher development and curriculum for the reading, writing, content, and nonfiction studies programs.

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Foreword

Preface: Getting the Most out of This Book

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Introduction: What Is Reading Without Limits?

PART 1 Launching Lifelong Readers

1 Finding Students? Reading Levels

PART 2 Steps to Creating Lifelong Readers

2 Teaching Students to Understand What They Read

3 Choice Reading to Encourage a Ton of Reading

4 Shared Reading to Teach, Reinforce, and Challenge

5 Guided Reading to Move Students Along Their Continuum

PART 3 Putting the Power of Choice, Guided, and Shared Reading to Work in Your Classroom or School

6 Make It Visible

7 Muscle Memory Routines

8 What to Do When Choice, Shared, or Guided Reading Isn?t Working

PART 4 Steps to Enhance Lifelong Readers

9 Reading Conferences, Our Aha Moments

10 Teaching Vocabulary

11 Class Discussion

12 Standardized Tests

13 Testing 1, 2, 3.ÿ.ÿ. Testing

PART 5 Putting It All Together

14 Planning a Lesson

15 Building the Reading Without Limits Program

PART 6 Reading Without Limits Resources

Resource A What to Do Before a Read-Aloud or Close Reading to Build Prior Knowledge

Resource B Hook Your Kids into Your Lesson

Resource C Alternative to a Think-Aloud: Using Famous Paintings

Resource D Different Ways to Check for Understanding

Resource E Sample Do-Now

Resource F The Nonfiction Studies Program

Resource G List of Children?s and Young Adult Texts Referenced and Recommended

Resource H Reproducibles

Resource I Data Tracking Templates

References

Further Reading

Notes