Sharon Taberski
cuts through the pressurized,
strategy-overloaded, fluency-crazed atmosphere
surrounding reading instruction to lay out the
reading and writing workshop practices that are
most effective in developing readers in the
primary grades. She shares the daily how-tos
needed to sustain a literacy block that engages
children in authentic reading and writing
practices including dozens of effective
practices that illustrate amazing ways to
organize instructional and independent reading
for kids including:
·
letter and sound searches
that improve students’ word accuracy and fluency
·
companion books bags
that develop their confidence and comprehension
·
strategy sheets
that make children’s thinking about text
concrete
·
a Putting Our Strategies to Work Board
that enables students to reflect on and discuss
the meta-cognitive strategies they’re using
·
Idea Books
and Ta-da Publishing Books that help
children get inside the reading and writing
process and see how each feeds the other.