Acknowledgments

Introduction

Section One: Everyday Tasks for Reading, Writing, and Thinking

1. A New Spin on Who, What, Why, When, and Where

2. Making Predictions to Help Comprehension

3. Journal Writing After Reading

4. Make a Connection to the World When Reading a Text Independently

5. Quoting an Important Idea in a Nonfi ction Text

6. Name Character Motives and Actions

7. Name Rising Plot

8. Name Plot Resolution

9. Tell the Text

10. Dig Deeper Into the Text

11. Guided Comprehension Talks

12. Elaborate and Clarify Meaning

13. Setting Routines for Independent Reading

14. Fixing Up When Attention Wanders

15. Communicating Your Heads-Up Ball Approach

16. Answering a Text-Dependent Question

17. Tell Why (You Think, Believe, Remember, Know) With Why Messages

18. Make a Bold Statement About a Text

19. Extend Thinking When Discussing a Text

20. One-Liners for Nonfi ction Texts

21. Crystal Ball Predictions

22. Yesterday’s News

23. Annotate Text

24. Sentence Strip Statements

25. Write Questions About Reading

26. Super Cool Three Steps to Describe an Experience

27. Getting Kids to Write: Wonderful Concentration

28. Sketch to Write

29. Getting Help From Another Writer: Write Dialogue in Narratives and Quotes in Reports

30. Getting Help From Another Writer: Write a Hook

31. The Right Amount of Details, The Right Amount of Clarity

32. Thinking Small to Write Well

33. Writing a Jot About What Was Read

34. Works Too Long and Never Gets Any Writing Done

35. Dialogue Journals

Section Two: Weekly Tasks for Reading, Writing, and Thinking

36. A nalyze for Author’s Purpose With a Text That Is a Little Too Hard for Students to Read on Their Own

37. Create a Structured Outline of a Text

38. Collecting Research and Organizing Notes for Writing

39. Plot Summary Snapshots

40. Writing Information in a New Format

41. Stay on Point in Writing

42. Productive Use of the Author’s Chair

43. Write a Short Research Report

44. Write an All About Text

45. Your Students Have a Voice: Writing an Opinion Text

46. Arguing the Solution to a Problematic Situation

47. Writing the Recipe for Success: How-to Texts

48. Writing Explanations, Be Like an Encyclopedia

49. Inquiry for Smart Minds

50. Responding to Literature With Some Kick to It

Section Three: Sometime Tasks for Reading, Writing, and Thinking

51. Identify Theme in a Complex Text

52. Posing Questions for Easier Inquiry

53. Writing a Fable or Myth

54. Writing a Fairy Tale

55. Justifying an Answer With a Claim and Evidence

56. Use Known Info to Help Others Learn New Info

57. Connecting Ideas Between Texts

58. Identifying Real Facts From Made-Up Facts: Fallacious Reasoning

59. Brainstorming Multiple Valid Answers/Responses

60. Concept Mapping Between Big Ideas

61. Make Me Ponder: Questions That Get the Thinking Juices Flowing

62. Writing Compare and Contrast Response to Literature

63. Peer-to-Peer Analysis and Response

64. Critique a Functional Document or Text

65. Visible and Visual: Use Known Concepts and Vocabulary to Understand a Text

66. Summarize a Text That Is a Little Too Hard for Students to Read on Their Own

67. Student Think-Alouds

68. Separate Central Idea From a Big Idea

69. Writing in Different Genres or Multimedia to Engage and Persuade

70. Creative Debate

71. I Am a Reader

72. I Am a Writer

73. Look Up

74. Goodbye, Perfect Teacher

75. Teacher and Learner

References and Further Reading

Index