Transformational Literacy: Making the Common Core Shift with Work That Matters - Brossura

Berger, Ron; Woodfin, Libby; Plaut, Suzanne Nathan; Dobbertin, Cheryl Becker; Vilen, Anne

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ISBN 10: 1118962230 ISBN 13: 9781118962237

Casa editrice: Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, 2014

Riassunto

Engage, challenge, and inspire students with work that matters

Transformational Literacy, written by a team from Expeditionary Learning, helps teachers leverage the Common Core instructional shifts—building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction, reading for and writing with evidence, and regular practice with complex text—to engage students in work that matters. Worthy texts and worthy tasks help students see the connection between their hard work as readers and writers and their capacity to contribute to stronger communities and a better world.

The stories, examples, and resources that permeate Transformational Literacy come primarily from the more than 150 Expeditionary Learning schools around the country that support teachers to select, supplement, customize, and create curriculum, and improve instruction. The book also draws on Expeditionary Learning's open source Common Core English Language Arts curriculum—often cited as one of the finest in the country—and professional development offered to thousands of teachers to implement that curriculum effectively.

Transformational Literacy combines the best of what Expeditionary Learning knows works for kids—purposeful, inquiry-based learning—and the new imperative of the Common Core—higher and deeper expectations for all students.

• Teach standards through a compelling and purposeful curriculum that prioritizes worthy texts and worthy task
• Improve students' evidence-based reading, thinking, talking, and writing
• Support students to develop a new mindset toward the challenge of reading complex texts

Transformational Literacy introduces an approach to literacy instruction that will engage, challenge, and inspire student with work that matters.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Ron Berger, chief academic officer for Expeditionary Learning, taught public school for more than twenty-five years. Libby Woodfin, a former teacher, is director of publications for Expeditionary Learning. Suzanne Nathan Plaut, a former high school English teacher, serves as the director of curriculum design for Expeditionary Learning. Cheryl Becker Dobbertin, program director for Expeditionary Learning, is a former teacher and building administrator.

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Praise for Transformational Literacy

Put Transformational Literacy at the top of your reading list. This book truly is about transforming, not just tweaking, practice in response to the Common Core State Standards. Perfect for study in professional learning communities, the book takes you inside schools and classrooms that provide ambitious, higher-order instruction for students from all backgrounds.
NELL K. DUKE, Ed.D., professor of Literacy, Language, and Culture, University of Michigan

Hopeful and helpful Transformational Literacy is filled with work-worthy ideas that instill hope in readers by providing helpful vignettes, descriptive examples, text suggestions, and instructional shifts that will prepare young scholars for the 21st century. No classroom teacher, instructional coach or administrator should be without this book.
CRIS TOVANI, Secondary English teacher and instructional coach, author, and international literacy consultant

Transformational Literacy is the right book at the right time. It gives teachers and administrators the know-how to leverage the Common Core State Standards across the academic disciplines in a way that promotes deep school-wide literacy improvement. But this really isn t a book about the Common Core; it is a book about how to foster our students natural curiosity by challenging them with worthy and rigorous tasks, and it is about how to turn our classrooms into places where there is a clear commitment to quality. A must read.
KELLY GALLAGHER, Secondary English teacher and author of Write Like This: Teaching Real-World Writing Through Modeling and Mentor Texts

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Jossey-Bass Inc Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1118962230
• ISBN 13: 9781118962237
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 296
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile