Today's standards challenge middle and high school teachers to teach their content deeply and meaningfully. This book provides an innovative coaching model for helping science, social studies, and English language arts teachers promote the reading, writing, listening, speaking, and thinking skills needed for high-level work in each discipline. Seventeen specific strategies are presented for large-group, small-group, and individual coaching, including step-by-step instructions and implementation tips. Profiles of highly effective disciplinary literacy coaches illustrate the nuts and bolts of the job and highlight ways to deal with common challenges. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the book includes 21 reproducible forms. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials.
How to Create and Sustain a School-Wide Culture of Deep Reading, Writing, and Thinking ReLeah Cossett Lent, Marsha McCracken Voigt ... Diving deep into nonfiction, grades 6–12: Transferable tools for reading ANY nonfiction text.
Let collaboration develop Facilitate collaboration among teachers by stepping out of the way and listening more than talking. ... Collaborative coaching for disciplinary literacy: Strategies to support teachers in grades 6–12 (pp.
Written in a reader-friendly voice for a practitioner audience, the book provides practical, research-based guidance for those seeking to collaboratively explore and implement DL-related practices in context-specific, meaningful ways- ...
This book provides essential coaching tools to support teachers in planning and implementing instruction aligned with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS).
"In this book, Erin Brown (coach) and Susan L'Allier (researcher) help teachers and coaches work together to improve literacy learning outcomes for students.
A Lexile reader measure characterizes a student's reading ability on the Lexile scale. ... literacy framework for instruction across core content area, leveled texts are never intended to be used to level classroom libraries, ...
Think you understand Disciplinary Literacy?
Adolescents today require high degrees of literacy in order to understand complex texts in a variety of media, covering a range of topics and subject areas. In recognition of this...
Offering research on afterschool literacy programs designed around teacher-student collaborative inquiry groups, this book demonstrates how adolescent learning is uniquely successful when grounded in dialogic conversation.
Collaborative coaching for disciplinary literacy: Strategies to support teachers in grades 6–12. New York: Guilford Press. Fink, E., & Resnick, L. B. (2001). Developing principals as instructional leaders.