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Quotes to Inspire Great Reading Teachers

A Reflective Tool for Advancing Students' Literacy

These quotes will inspire reflection on your teaching and provide tools to inspire your students, too!

With a year's worth of thought-provoking quotations--tied to 11 reading-related themes for professional development--this inspiring guide will deepen your reflection and critical thinking and provide you with tools to foster students' literacy, metacognitive skills, and goal setting, including:

  • Reflective questions relating the quote to teaching practices
  • Lesson prompts for using the quote with students
  • List of books you can use to extend students' thinking of a quote  

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Product Details
  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781412926485
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2006
  • Page Count: 200
  • Publication date: May 16, 2006

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Description

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"Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire."
-William Butler Yeats

These quotes will inspire reflection on your teaching and provide tools to inspire your students, too!

Teachers will find a year's worth of thought-provoking quotations by thinkers from in and out of education, from across centuries and cultures. Tied to themes of best teaching practice and reading domains, including goal setting, comprehension, vocabulary building, assessment, and collaboration, these quotes give you a daily way to deepen your reflection and critical thinking. The book also shows how to use the quotes in the classroom to directly foster improvement of your students' literacy, metacognitive skills, and goal setting, and at the same time introduce them to some of the greatest names in history and literature.

Following each quote, this inspirational guide includes:

  • Three reflective questions relating the core idea of the quote to teaching practices
  • Lesson prompts that provide ways to use the quote with your students
  • Literature links that identify books for K through 2, 3 through 8, and 9 through 12 and how to use them to extend student learning and thinking related to the quote

The authors have created a unique resource to help you deepen your thinking. It can be used alone or as a companion book to Reading First and Beyond (Block & Israel, 2005), which offers research-based practices for reading instruction. Don't miss this great opportunity to enrich your teaching practices as well as your students' literacy!


Key features

  • Links to the International Reading Association's standards for professional development
  • Enriches and personalizes teaching in the Reading First environment
  • Pairs well as a reflective tool to accompany the author's Reading First and Beyond: Complete Guide for Teachers and Literacy Coaches
  • Fosters classroom learning community as teachers and students explore great quotes and thinking together
  • Combines robust reflections and themes like assessment and development of skills in essential domains to inspiring quotes
  • Provides global divergent perspective as balance to explicit teaching
  • Perfect for every great and on-the-way-to-great teacher
Author(s)

Author(s)

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Cathy Collins Block

Cathy Collins Block is a Professor of Education at Texas Christian University. She has taught every grade level from preschool to graduate school, and was elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the International Reading Association from 2002-2005. She has served or is presently serving on the Board of Directors of the National Reading Conference. Nobel Learning Communities, IBM Educational Board of Directors, and the National Center for Learning Disabilities. She presently serves on the Editorial Boards for the Journal of Educational Psychology, Reading Research Quarterly, The Reading Teacher, National Reading Conference Yearbook, and America Tomorrow. She has written more than 30 books and 80 research-based articles relative to literacy instruction and teacher education. She has also served or is serving on several elementary/middle school authorial writing teams for public/private school textbooks and literacy curriculum materials. She has written for Walt Disney Corporation, PBS Television Stations and other national media companies. She has received numerous honors as a teacher, including Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers and Who’s Who in the World.

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Susan E. Israel

Susan E. Israel is an independent researcher, writer, and literacy consultant and currently serves as President and Director of Reading Alliance for Catholic Education in Indiana, where she works with small and large corporations to enhance literacy products. Her special research interests are in the areas of reading comprehension, writing, and child-mind development as it relates to literacy processes. Israel served as assistant professor at the University of Dayton, and in 2005 she was awarded the University’s Panhellenic Council Outstanding Professor Award. She has also served on the national faculty at the University of Notre Dame Summer Program, where she taught reading and language arts methods. A former elementary teacher, she was awarded the 1998 teacher-researcher grant from the International Reading Association (IRA). Having been an active member of the IRA for over a decade, she has served on a number of IRA committees and interest groups and recently was president of the History of Literacy Special Interest Group. In addition, she has been active with the National Reading Conference. Israel has authored, coauthored, or edited over 15 books and volumes and is the senior editor of the recently published comprehensive volume, Handbook of Research on Reading Comprehension (Israel & Duffy, 2008). Other recent publications include Teachers Taking Action: A Comprehensive Guide to Teacher Research (with Cynthia Lassonde, 2008), Reading First and Beyond (with Cathy Collins Block, 2005), Collaborative Literacy (2006), Shaping the Reading Field (2007), Poetic Possibilities (2006), and Quotes to Inspire Great Reading Teachers (2006).
Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Reflections From the Authors


Acknowledgments


About the Authors


Introduction by Susan E. Israel


Themed Collection 1: Making Meaningful Connections by Susan E. Israel, Sarah M. Luckhaupt, and Lyndsay L. Peters

Themed Collection 2: Setting Valuable Goals by Erin Brianna Doyal and Susan E. Israel

Themed Collection 3: Using Assessment to Excel by Dixie Massey

Themed Collection 4: Building Blocks for Success by Cathy Collins Block and Cinnamon S. Whiteley

Themed Collection 5: Word Power Equals Knowledge by Cathy Collins Block, Cinnamon S. Whiteley, and Nicole M. Caylor

Themed Collection 6: Expanding Our Opportunity by Cathy Collins Block and Cinnamon S. Whiteley

Themed Collection 7: Thinking to Obtain Meaning by Cathy Collins Block and Cinnamon S. Whiteley

Themed Collection 8: Identifying Our Strengths by Cathy Collins Block and Cinnamon S. Whiteley

Themed Collection 9: Work, Study Skills, and Writing by Cathy Collins Block and Cinnamon S. Whiteley

Themed Collection 10: Literacy Worlds by Beth A. Earley, Molly D. Dahl, and Susan E. Israel

Themed Collection 11: Collaborative Communities at School and Home by Cathy Collins Block and Cinnamon S. Whiteley

Favorite Additional Quotes From Teachers and Students by Susan E. Israel


Quotation Bibliography


Index


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