Yellow Brick Roads: Shared and Guided Paths to Independent Reading 4-12, Janet Allen

Do you spend your days working with students who struggle to comprehend reading in literacy and content classes? Are you looking for a way to establish comprehensive literacy instruction in your school or classroom so all students receive support in becoming competent and confident readers? In Yellow Brick Roads, Janet Allen offers research-based methods for helping teachers move toward these goals. This book provides research, practical methods, detailed strategies, and resources for read-aloud, shared, guided, and independent reading. In addition, Janet outlines solutions for many of the literacy dilemmas that teachers face every day: understanding what gets in the way of reading; rethinking and reorganizing time and resources; providing support for content literacy; developing assessment practices that inform instruction; supporting reading as a path to writing instruction; establishing professional communities to support individual and school-wide needs-based research. The appendixes include graphic organizers to support strategy lessons, suggestions of titles for building classroom libraries, as well as web sites and professional resources that support the teaching of reading. Yellow Brick Roads will give you rich ideas, detailed strategies, and literature support for implementing those strategies. At a time when many are looking for that elusive wizard to solve students' reading problems, this book helps you create your own paths to effective literacy environments. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Contents1. Looking for the Wizard 2. Places for Wonderful Ideas: Establishing Environments That Support Reading Diversity 3. What Gets in the Way of Reading Success? 4. Life Is Short - Eat Dessert First! The Value of Read-Aloud Beyond the Primary Years 5. Shared Reading as the Heart of Reading Instruction 6. Guided Reading: ""On the Run"" Strategies Toward Independence 7. Creating (and Living with) Independent Readers 8. Organizing for Choice: Supporting Diversity in Reading, Writing, and Learning 9. ""Am I the Only One Who Can't Make a K-W-L Work?"" Literacy Paths to Content Knowledge 10. Help for the Most ""Tangled"" Readers 11. Reading the Way to Writing 12. Full Circle: Assessing, Evaluating, and Starting Again 13. Living the Professional Life / Appendix A: Resources / Appendix B: Literature Supporting Content Literacy / Appendix C: Web Sites Supporting Lesson Plans and Classroom Instruction / Appendix D: Books on Tape / Appendix E: Short Story Collections Supporting Read-Aloud, Shared, Guided, and Independent Reading / Appendix F: Poetry Collections / Appendix G: ""The Day of the Hunter"" by Edward M. Holmes / Appendix H: Forms / References / Index --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Reviews""Allen provides a much-needed look at alternatives to literacy teaching and literacy learning for students beyond elementary grades. In a relaxed, nonpedantic style she shares her own and others' frustrating as well as successful teaching experiences, giving the book validity. She addresses the challenge all teachers face: how to help students break the code--not only to a level where teachers often make assumptions about students' capabilities; for example, starting with ""shared reading"" (students follow along as the teacher or a recorded voice reads) to ""guided reading"" (teacher leads students through the reading with 'read' words, but to 'read' meaning and then to respond to crucial questions) in order to achieve competent, independent reading.""CHOICE, September, 2001--------------------------------------------------------------------------------About the Author Janet Allen (EdD, University of Maine) spends her time researching, writing, and consulting with schools and teachers who are changing their literacy practices. An award-winning teacher, she taught high school English and reading for twenty years in rural Maine, eventually leaving her classroom to teach English education courses as an associate professor at the University of Central Florida. Janet helped create the Orange County Literacy Project, directed the Central Florida Writing Project, and currently works with districts implementing large-scale literacy initiatives. Her first book, It's Never Too Late: Leading Adolescents to Lifelong Literacy, was published in 1995.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Related TitlesTITLES WITH SIMILAR CONTENTS Are They Really Reading? Reading Reasons Beyond Leveled Books OTHER TITLES BY THE AUTHOR On the Same Page Reimagining Reading (Cassette) Reimagining Reading (CD) There's Room for Me Here Words, Words, Words

9781571103192

Title:Yellow Brick Roads: Shared and Guided Paths to Independent Reading 4-12, Janet Allen
Author:Janet Allen
Publishing House:Stenhouse
ISBN-10:1571103198