Team Reading: Seeking Balance
In the Best Interest of Students
Goals: Collaboration focused on planning lessons that move beyond CC expectations
- Dialing up the amount of reading students are doing
- Balancing rigorous, high quality literature and nonfiction with high-interest, student-selected titles
- Encouraging readers to move beyond a first draft understanding of the text into deeper levels of reading; collaborating with teacher and peers for deeper understanding
- Meet Long Term Transfer Goals including one TBD that includes the great stuff - "empathy, reading for enjoyment, expressing oneself in writing," - why we teach this...
Kelly Gallagher's In the Best Interest of Students
In his new book, In the Best Interest of Students, Kelly Gallagher notes that there are real strengths in the Common Core standards, and there are significant weaknesses as well. He takes the long view, reminding us that standards come and go but what remains constant is the need to stay true to what we know works in the teaching of reading, writing, speaking and listening.
Kelly Gallagher's Readicide
Read-i-cide n: The systematic killing of the love of reading, often exacerbated by the inane, mind-numbing practices found in schools.
Reading is dying in our schools. Educators are familiar with many of the factors that have contributed to the decline—poverty, second-language issues, and the ever-expanding choices of electronic entertainment. In this provocative new book, Kelly Gallagher suggests, however, that it is time to recognize a new and significant contributor to the death of reading: our schools.
Kelly Gallagher's Deeper Reading
Do your students often struggle with difficult novels and other challenging texts? Do they think one reading of a work is more than enough? Do they primarily comprehend at a surface-level, and are they frequently unwilling or unable to discover the deeper meaning found in multi-layered works? Do you feel that you are doing more work teaching the novel than they are reading it?
Building on twenty years of teaching language arts, Kelly Gallagher, author of Reading Reasons, shows how students can be taught to successfully read a broad range of challenging and difficult texts with deeper levels of comprehension
The Plan
1. Volunteers for Team Reading
2. 6 ED Hours this summer:- 3 Hours for reading & annotating the book
- 3 Hour meeting: Pick a date in the summer and we meet to discuss our books and make a plan for PD focused on topic.
3. 15-16 school year: PD time focused on collaboration, creation of materials, and lesson planning to meet goals.
=Homegrown meaningful PD
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