Doing What Works

Literacy Strategies for the Next Level

By (author) Judy Tilton Brunner

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Publication date:

12 January 2013

Length of book:

176 pages

Publisher

R&L Education

ISBN-13: 9781475801194

Doing What Works: Literacy Strategies for the Next Level will assist educators as they support students in the mastery of vocabulary, comprehension, and study skills required by the Common Core State Standards. All strategies have been carefully selected based on their ease of use, utility in terms of scaffolding, differentiation, and simplicity of format. Judy Tilton Brunner designed this key sourcebook for educators who need or want to cultivate their students’ vocabulary development, reading comprehension, note taking, and general study skills. Doing What Works provides practical, effective, and research-based strategies to help students remember and understand what they read at the highest levels of cognition: layering of texts, close reading, collaborating, using a variety of sources, teaching uncommon vocabulary, and posing text-dependent. By incorporating these teaching strategies into classroom instruction, educators will teach with purpose, and students will learn with independence.

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 Vocabulary Strategies: Improving Students’ Literacy and Lexicon
Chapter 2 Comprehension Strategies: Teaching with Intention, Learning with Independence
Chapter 3 Study Strategies: Supporting the Learning Process through Note Taking and Close Reading
Appendix A Technology Resources
Appendix B Teacher Observation Form: Literacy and Student Engagement Strategies
Appendix C Lesson Guide and Observation Form: Mathematics
Bibliography

Brunner hits another home run in helping teachers and administrators with literacy strategies from early readers through high school. Doing What Works: Literacy Strategies for the Next Level is organized for use as a desk resource, a faculty book study, or a cover-to-cover read for novices and experts alike. The easy-to-understand explanations give the reader research-based and ready-to-use strategies to help students improve reading skills. The references to the Common Core State Standards and the list of technology resources complement the strategies exceptionally well. This book is a must have for any educator looking to improve student reading!