Disrupting Thinking Why how We Read Matters
Disrupting Thinking: Why How We Read Matters by G. Kylene Beers, published by Scholastic Incorporated in 2017, is an illustrated guide designed for educators. This 174-page book offers insights into transforming the approach to teaching reading, emphasizing the importance of developing thoughtful and responsive readers in the classroom.
Readers will find practical strategies, classroom scenarios, and student conversations that facilitate a deeper understanding of engagement and relevance in reading. The book addresses key topics such as teaching methods, professional development, and the aims of education, making it a valuable resource for teachers and administrators seeking to enhance their instructional practices. Each chapter concludes with a Turn-and-Talk moment, encouraging collaborative reflection and discussion among faculty.
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Supported with student conversations, classroom scenarios, practical strategies, and turn-and-talk moments, teachers and administrators can use this book as a guide for changing the way they think about teaching students to become thoughtful, skillful, attentive, responsive readers.
Disrupting Thinking: Why How We Read Matters is a book for the entire faculty. Supported with student conversations, classroom scenarios, practical strategies, and turn-and-talk moments, teachers and administrators will use this book as a guide for changing the way they think about teaching kids to become the thoughtful, skillful, attentive, responsive readers we want them to be, our democracy needs them to be. Kylene Beers and Bob Probst help us understand engagement, relevance, and talk along with day-to-day concerns of choice reading, incommon reading, and leveled reading. Kylene and Bob push our thinking in this book as they take on the challenge of changing how it is we read.
Key Features
- Provides classsroom vignettes, techniques and strategies to showcase change for entire faculty;
- Reads like a workshop in a book. Every chapter ends with a Turn-and-Talk.
- Deepens our understanding of reading and defines three kinds of readers: responsive, responsible, and emphatic.
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