• Total Literacy Techniques: Tools to Help Students Analyze Literature and Informational Texts, July/2014

Total Literacy Techniques: Tools to Help Students Analyze Literature and Informational Texts, July/2014

Author(s) Pérsida Himmele, William Himmele, Keely Potter
ISBN10 141661883X
ISBN13 9781416618836
Format Paperback
Pages 180
Year Publish 2014 July

Synopsis

Boosting your students' literacy requires addressing all the interconnected elements of emotion, cognition, and higher-order thinking. You can meet that challenge with the advice from two ASCD best-selling authors Pérsida Himmele and William Himmele and a classroom teacher Keely Potter. This guide for grade 3–12 teachers provides 50 classroom-tested tools and techniques to ensure you

  1. Plan lessons that grow your students' academic language.
  2. Help students explicitly and implicitly develop and monitor their ability to think.
  3. Ensure students are not just consumers of powerful words, but producers of powerful words.
  4. Encourage students to process texts in higher-order peer interactions.
  5. Support students so that they are able to not only cite text-based evidence, but also coherently interpret its relevance for the reader.

Reflections from real teachers and students bring these practices to life.

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