Publisher's Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Introduction

Section 1. Designing a Literate Environment

Learning Language by Using It

#1 Labels, Labels, Everywhere

#2 Where in the Room Is It?

#3 Wordstrings

#4 String ‘Em Up

#5 Hang-Ups

#6 Shoe Bag Classification

#7 Word Ribbons

#8 Class Mailbox

#9 Message Center

#10 Personal Word Banks

Building on Students’ Experiences

#11 Classroom Libraries

#12 Mainly Menus

#13 Taking Off With Advertising Flyers

#14 Weekly Words

#15 The Living Bulletin Board

Establishing Literacy Work Stations

#16 Work Station Rules

#17 The Key to Knowledge

#18 Housekeeping

#19 Introducing the Writing Work Station

Section 2. Orchestrating Student Interaction

Buddy Studies: Learning in Pairs

#20 Turn to Your Neighbor and . . .

#21 Level of Learning Reading Partners

#22 Learning Partners

#23 Paired Verbal Fluency

#24 Learning Partner Biographies

#25 Summary Pairs

#26 The King and Queen of Questions

Structuring Small Groups

#27 Story Map Trios

#28 Get the Point

#29 Peer Revision: Learning Together

#30 Peer Editing: Sharing Glows and Grows

Reading Conference: Flexible Student Grouping

#31 Establishing the Climate

#32 Student Preparation

#33 Temperature Checking

#34 Developing the Format

#35 Flexible Groupings

#36 One-on-One

Section 3. Developing Fluent Comprehension

Developing Skills by Increasing Fluency

#37 Choosing and Using Predictable Text

#38 Innovations on Text

#39 Toot! Toot!

#40 Radio Reading

#41 Say It Like the Character

#42 Reader’s Theater

#43 Partners Predict

#44 Opin

#45 Word Splash

#46 Say Something

Extending the Reading Experience

#47 Figures of Speech

#48 Create a Comic

#49 Finding Common Ground

Integrating Instruction

#50 Student-Selected Theme Topics

#51 Civic Projects

#52 Imagine If You Were ...

Section 4. Nurturing Lifelong Learners

Routines for Reading to, With, and by Children

#53 Read-Alouds

#54 Familiarity Breeds Confidence

#55 We Are Readers: A Class Record

#56 Sustained Silent Reading

#57 Guided Reading

Writing Centers: Reading/Writing Connection

#58 Readers/Writers Workshop

#59 Purposeful Tasks

#60 Published and Unpublished Work

#61 Paths to Publication

Building a Community of Learners

#62 Literature Clubs

#63 Join the Chorus

#64 Mine, Yours, and Ours

#65 Writing Autobiographies

Section 5. Assessing Student Growth

Kid-Watching in the Classroom

#66 Anecdotal Records

#67 A Nifty Notebook

#68 Sticky Helpers

#69 Individual Student Checklists

#70 Class Checklists

#71 Historical Checklists

#72 Interviews

#73 Open-Ended Questions

Student Portfolios

#74 Crate ‘Em Up!

#75 Bulky Bundles

#76 Portfolio Contents

#78 Portfolio-Prompted Planning

#79 Entry Slips

#80 Autobiographies of Work

#81 Biographies of Work

Exhibitions and Performance Tasks

#81 Building in Authenticity

#82 Anchors and Archetypes

#83 Developing a Rubric

#84 Exciting Exhibitions

Section 6. Leading Learning-Focused Conversations: Strategies for Professional Development

Crafting the Container: Starting, Structuring, and Sustaining Thinking

#85 Simple Stem Completions

#86 T-chart Opposites

#87 3-2-1

#88 Mindful Memorandum

#89 Brainstorm and Pass

#90 Problem-Solving Partnerships

#91 Going Graphic

Learning-Focused Consultation

#92 An Idea Menu

#93 Make Your Thinking Transparent

#94 Patterned Response: What, Why, How

#95 The Big Idea

#96 Categorically Speaking

#97 Sharing Causal Theories

Inviting Thinking: A Sampler of Questions for Literacy Coaching

#98 Questions for Planning

#99 Questions for Reflecting

#100 Questions to Stimulate Discussion

#101 Metaphor and Invention

Resources

Index