Table of Contents
Acknowledgments x
About the Authors xi
Introduction 1
1 Designing a Literate Environment 11
Learning Language by Using It 13
1 Labels, Labels Everywhere 14
2 Where in the Room Is It? 15
3 Wordstrings 16
4 String'Em Up 18
5 Hang-Ups 19
6 Shoe Bag Classification 20
7 Word Ribbons 22
8 Class Mailbox 23
9 Message Center 24
10 Personal Word Banks 25
Building on Students'Experiences 27
11 Classroom Libraries 28
12 Mainly Menus 29
13 Taking Off With Advertising Flyers 31
14 Weekly Words 32
15 The Living Bulletin Board 33
Establishing Literacy Workstations 35
16 Workstation Rules 36
17 The Key to Knowledge 37
18 Housekeeping 38
19 Introducing the Writing Workstation 39
2 Orchestrating Student Interaction 41
Buddy Studies: Learning in Pairs 43
20 Turn to Your Neighbor and… 44
21 Level-of-Learning Reading Partners 45
22 Learning Partners 46
23 Paired Verbal Fluency 48
24 Learning-Partner Biographies 49
25 Summary Pairs 49
26 The King and Queen of Questions 50
Structuring Small Groups 52
27 Story Map Trios 53
28 Get the Point 54
29 Peer Revision: Learning Together 55
30 Peer Editing: Sharing Glows and Grows 56
Reading Conference: Flexible Student Grouping 58
31 Establishing the Climate 59
32 Student Preparation 60
33 Temperature Checking 61
34 Developing the Format 62
35 Flexible Groupings 63
36 Working One on One 65
3 Developing Fluent Comprehension 67
Developing Skills by Increasing Fluency 71
37 Choosing and Using Predictable Text 72
38 Innovations on Text 73
39 Toot! Toot! 74
40 Radio Reading 76
41 Say It Like the Character 77
42 Reader's Theater 78
43 Partners Predict 80
44 Opin 81
45 Word Splash 82
46 Say Something 83
Extending the Reading Experience 85
47 Figures of Speech 86
48 Create a Comic 87
49 Finding Common Ground 88
Integrating Instruction 90
50 Student-Selected Theme Topics 91
51 Civic Projects 92
52 Imagine If You Were… 94
4 Nurturing Lifelong Learners 97
Routines for Reading to, With, and by Children 99
53 Read Alouds 100
54 Familiarity Breeds Confidence: Shared Reading 101
55 We Are Readers: A Class Record 102
56 Sustained Silent Reading 104
57 Guided Reading 105
Writing Centers: Reading/Writing Connection 107
58 Readers' and Writers' Workshops 108
59 Purposeful Tasks 109
60 Published and Unpublished Work 110
61 Paths to Publication 111
Building a Community of Learners 113
62 Literature Clubs 114
63 Join the Chorus 116
64 Mine, Yours, and Ours 117
65 Writing Autobiographies 118
5 Assessing Student Growth 121
Kid-Watching in the Classroom 124
66 Anecdotal Records 125
67 A Nifty Notebook 126
68 Sticky Helpers 127
69 Individual Student Checklists 128
70 Class Checklists 129
71 Historical Checklists 131
72 Interviews 132
73 Open-Ended Questions 133
Student Portfolios 135
74 Crate'Em Up 136
75 Bulky Bundles 137
76 Portfolio Contents 138
77 Portfolio-Prompted Planning 139
78 Entry Slips 140
79 Autobiographies of Work 142
80 Biographies of Work 143
Exhibitions and Performance Tasks 145
81 Building In Authenticity 146
82 Anchors and Archetypes 149
83 Developing a Rubric 150
84 Exciting Exhibitions 153
6 Leading Learning-Focused Conversations: Strategies for Professional Development 155
Crafting the Container: Starting, Structuring, and Sustaining Thinking 159
85 Simple Stem Completions 160
86 T-Chart Opposites 160
87 3-2-1 161
88 Mindful Memorandum 162
89 Brainstorm and Pass 164
90 Problem-Solving Partnerships 165
91 Going Graphic 166
Learning-Focused Consultation 167
92 An Idea Menu 168
93 Make Your Thinking Transparent 169
94 Patterned Response: What, Why, How 169
95 The Big Idea 170
96 Categorically Speaking 171
97 Sharing Causal Theories 172
Inviting Thinking: A Sampler of Questions for Literacy Coaching 173
98 Questions for Planning 175
99 Questions for Reflecting 176
100 Questions to Stimulate Discussion 177
101 Metaphor and Invention 178
References and Further Readings 179
Index 183
