Corwin Literacy 30 Big-Idea Lessons for Small Groups: The Teaching Framework for ANY Text and EVERY Reader, (Paperback)

<p><strong><em>Intermediate grade readers are not an M, an N, or an O--they're idea-wranglers, ready to comprehend when we honor who they are as thinkers first<br> </em></strong><br> In <em>30 Big Idea Lessons for Small Groups</em>, educators Rafferty, Morello, and Rountos provide an amazing framework that gets students interacting with texts. You prompt and guide, but they think! <strong>Big-Idea groups</strong> are the piece that's been missing from small group instruction: engagement from the get-go.<br> Follow this unique 4-part process to develop students' literal, inferential, evaluative, and analytical skills: </p> <ol> <li><strong>Engage: Before Reading</strong> Using a tactile tool like a topic card or a pyramid, readers literally move ideas around on their small group table as they debate a question related to the text and to big ideas about courage, persistence, love, and honesty, and more. </li> <li><strong>Discuss: During Reading</strong> Students read and mark up a short text, exploring questions that get at the author's take on the big idea, noticing key vocabulary, text structure, moments of inference, and more. </li> <li><strong>Deep-See Think: After Reading</strong> Students re-read, synthesize, and revise their interpretations together and tweak the tactile tool, based on questions that probe the big idea in new and deeper ways. </li> <li><strong>Connect: After Reading </strong>Students summarize, and begin to transfer their understandings to other texts in independent reading and the world beyond, primed for this all-important transfer because they've been engaged in topics that clearly relate to their lives. </li> </ol> <p>Tap into 30 lessons organized by text complexity, reproducible forms, assessments, and a bank of engagement tools so you can switch it up. Use these lessons across the year as a warm up to a whole-class novel, to augment your core reading program, to challenge your capable readers and bring your striving readers in to rich yet accessible reading experiences. </p>

• Corwin Literacy 30 Big-Idea Lessons for Small Groups: The Teaching Framework for ANY Text and EVERY Reader, (Paperback)
• Author: Corwin Publishers
• ISBN: 9781506334387
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2016-05-18
• Page Count: 248