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Visible Learning for Literacy, Grades K-12

Implementing the Practices That Work Best to Accelerate Student Learning
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Ensure students demonstrate more than a year’s worth of learning during a school year by implementing the right literacy practice at the right moment.

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  • Grade Level: K-12
  • ISBN: 9781506332352
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Series: Corwin Literacy
  • Year: 2016
  • Page Count: 216
  • Publication date: March 29, 2016
Price: $42.95

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“Every student deserves a great teacher, not by chance, but by design” — Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, & John Hattie

What if someone slipped you a piece of paper listing the literacy practices that ensure students demonstrate more than a year’s worth of learning for a year spent in school? Would you keep the paper or throw it away?

We think you’d keep it. And that’s precisely why acclaimed educators Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and John Hattie wrote Visible Learning for Literacy. They know teachers will want to apply Hattie’s head-turning synthesis of more than 15 years of research involving millions of students, which he used to identify the instructional routines that have the biggest impact on student learning.

These practices are “visible” for teachers and students to see, because their purpose has been made clear, they are implemented at the right moment in a student’s learning, and their effect is tangible. Yes, the “aha” moments made visible by design.

With their trademark clarity and command of the research, and dozens of classroom scenarios to make it all replicable, these authors apply Hattie’s research, and show you:

  • How to use the right approach at the right time, so that you can more intentionally design classroom experiences that hit the surface, deep, and transfer phases of learning, and more expertly see when a student is ready to dive from surface to deep.
  • Which routines are most effective at specific phases of learning, including word sorts, concept mapping, close reading, annotating, discussion, formative assessment, feedback, collaborative learning, reciprocal teaching, and many more.
  • Why the 8 mind frames for teachers apply so well to curriculum planning and can inspire you to be a change agent in students’ lives—and part of a faculty that embraces the idea that visible teaching is a continual evaluation of one’s impact on student’s learning.

“Teachers, it’s time we embrace the evidence, update our classrooms, and impact student learning in wildly positive ways,” say Doug, Nancy, and John. So let’s see Visible Learning for Literacy for what it is: the book that renews our teaching and reminds us of our influence, just in time.

Author(s)

Author(s)

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Douglas Fisher

Douglas Fisher is professor and chair of educational leadership at San Diego State University and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High and Middle College. Previously, Doug was an early intervention teacher and elementary school educator. He is a credentialed English teacher and administrator in California. In 2022, he was inducted into the Reading Hall of Fame by the Literacy Research Association. He has published numerous articles on reading and literacy, differentiated instruction, and curriculum design, as well as books such as The Teacher Clarity Playbook 2/e, Your Introduction to PLC+, The Illustrated Guide to Teacher Credibility, The Teaching Reading Playbook, and Welcome to Teaching!.


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Nancy Frey

Nancy Frey is a Professor in Educational Leadership at San Diego State and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High and Middle College. She is a credentialed special educator, reading specialist, and administrator in California. She is a member of the International Literacy Association’s Literacy Research Panel. Her published titles include The Illustrated Guide to Visible Learning, Welcome to Teaching Multilingual Learners, Teaching Foundational Skills to Adolescent Readers, and RIGOR Unveiled: A Video-Enhanced Flipbook to Promote Teacher Expertise in Relationship Building, Instruction, Goals, Organization, and Relevance.

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John Hattie
John Hattie, PhD, is an award-winning education researcher and best-selling author with nearly thirty years of experience examining what works best in student learning and achievement. His research, better known as Visible Learning, is a culmination of nearly thirty years synthesizing more than 2,100 meta-analyses comprising more than one hundred thousand studies involving over 300 million students around the world. He has presented and keynoted in over three hundred international conferences and has received numerous recognitions for his contributions to education. His notable publications include Visible Learning, Visible Learning for Teachers, Visible Learning and the Science of How We Learn; Visible Learning for Mathematics, Grades K-12; and 10 Mindframes for Visible Learning.
Table of Contents

Table of Contents

List of Videos

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Laying the Groundwork for Visible Learning for Literacy

The Evidence Base

Meta-Analyses

Effect Sizes

Noticing What Works

Learning From What Works, Not Limited to Literacy

Teacher Credibility

Teacher–Student Relationships

Teacher Expectations

General Literacy Learning Practices

1. Challenge

2. Self-Efficacy

3. Learning Intentions With Success Criteria

Conclusion

Chapter 2. Surface Literacy Learning

Why Surface Literacy Learning Is Essential

Acquisition and Consolidation

Acquisition of Literacy Learning Made Visible

Leveraging Prior Knowledge

Phonics Instruction and Direct Instruction in Context

Vocabulary Instruction

Mnemonics

Word Cards

Modeling Word Solving

Word and Concept Sorts

Wide Reading

Reading Comprehension Instruction in Context

Summarizing

Annotating Text

Note-Taking

Consolidation of Literacy Learning Made Visible

Rehearsal and Memorization Through Spaced Practice

Repeated Reading

Receiving Feedback

Collaborative Learning With Peers

Conclusion

Chapter 3. Deep Literacy Learning

Moving From Surface to Deep

Deep Acquisition and Deep Consolidation

Deep Acquisition of Literacy Learning Made Visible

Concept Mapping

Discussion and Questioning

Close Reading

Deep Consolidation of Literacy Learning Made Visible

Metacognitive Strategies

Reciprocal Teaching

Feedback to the Learner

Conclusion

Chapter 4. Teaching Literacy for Transfer

Moving From Deep Learning to Transfer

Types of Transfer: Near and Far

The Paths for Transfer: Low-Road Hugging and High-Road Bridging

Setting the Conditions for Transfer of Learning

Teaching Students to Organize Conceptual Knowledge

Students Identify Analogies

Peer Tutoring

Reading Across Documents

Problem-Solving Teaching

Teaching Students to Transform Conceptual Knowledge

Socratic Seminar

Extended Writing

Time to Investigate and Produce

Conclusion

Chapter 5. Determining Impact, Responding When the Impact Is Insufficient, and Knowing What Does Not Work

Determining Impact

Preassessment

Postassessment

Responding When There Is Insufficient Impact

Response to Intervention

Screening

Quality Core Instruction

Progress Monitoring

Supplemental and Intensive Interventions

Learning From What Doesn’t Work

Grade-Level Retention

Ability Grouping

Matching Learning Styles With Instruction

Test Prep

Homework

Conclusion

Appendix: Effect Sizes

References

Index

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