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PublisherCorwin Press

ISBN-101506365515

ISBN-139781506365510

eBay Product ID (ePID)240191352

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Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameNo More Fake Reading : Merging the Classics with Independent Reading to Create Joyful, Lifelong Readers

Publication Year2017

SubjectTeaching Methods & Materials / Reading & Phonics, Reading Skills, General, Books & Reading

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Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Reference, Language Arts & Disciplines, Education

AuthorBerit Gordon

SeriesCorwin Literacy Ser.

FormatBook, Other

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight20.8 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width7.4 in

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ReviewsAfter attending an eye-opening workshop with Berit Gordon, I followed her lead and tried something new with my Freshmen College Prep Students. I'd been teaching Great Expectations to this age group for years and it was always a challenge for them and for me. The assigned nightly reading went unread, and if they did read, they did not understand it. Every day felt exhausting, as I would re-teach the previous night's assignment. This year, using Berit's ideas as a guide, I opted to use the novel as an in-class text, analyzing passages to teach close reading skills while the students chose books to read on their own ... Students delved into these high interest, contemporary books and made consistent, meaningful connections between Great Expectations and their independent novels. They wrote literary essays about their choice books, and took a test on Great Expectations, for which they received extremely high marks, demonstrating their mastery of a sophisticated (and previously dreaded!) text. The experiment was a huge success! Working through a complex text together with focused instruction enabled students to engage with a difficult book, and appreciate it in a way they never had before. Interestingly, they enjoyed Dickens so much that I taught more of the book than I had originally planned!, How can we inspire reading and critical thinking in a time of widespread student distraction and disengagement? Berit Gordon helps bridge the gap between theory and action with classroom-friendly strategies that work. Test them out, and like me, you may find your students begging for more time to read., There is so much to love about this book! Grounded in the authority of classroom practice, it makes independent reading work in new ways by actively teaching and sharing how to read, and by leveraging the social power and pleasure of reading. The approach is based on an elegant principle of cognitive apprenticeship: meet students at their current state of being with their current interests and use this as the platform to help them outgrow themselves. The approach allows for authentic and democratic differentiation - through various materials, levels of support, groupings - while all students are working in complementary ways on a common project. This approach mirrors what expert adult readers do: they put texts into conversation with each other to make global meanings., "There is so much to love about this book! Grounded in the authority of classroom practice, it makes independent reading work in new ways by actively teaching and sharing how to read, and by leveraging the social power and pleasure of reading. The approach is based on an elegant principle of cognitive apprenticeship: meet students at their current state of being with their current interests and use this as the platform to help them outgrow themselves. The approach allows for authentic and democratic differentiation - through various materials, levels of support, groupings - while all students are working in complementary ways on a common project. This approach mirrors what expert adult readers do: they put texts into conversation with each other to make global meanings." -- Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Professor of English Education "Berit Gordon is the best word whisperer, lighting a love for words in even the most reluctant of readers and writers. Her techniques created an atmosphere of electricity in a classroom that had lost its spark for communication. Many books that I've read only speak to the strategy and provide anchor charts. Berit goes further and explains the what, why, how, and when of the strategy in use. This is key. Berit is key. For many of us, we know what we want our students to do. We just need a little direction to get there. Berit provides the map, serves as GPS, and leads us to the place where our classrooms are now abuzz with engaged readers and inspired writers." -- Wendy Platt "While I had spent over 20 years implementing book clubs and independent reading in my Language Arts classroom, I had never quite approached it in the same way Berit Gordon outlined in No More Fake Reading. Now, my students are reading at least double the previous required amount, and they are thrilled with the large amount of choice. I found it effortless to create a curriculum where I match in-class texts with independent reading. The students find the more challenging texts enjoyable when sampling them rather than haranguing through the truly difficult ones or just reading spark notes!" -- Rose Leonard, English Teacher "After attending an eye-opening workshop with Berit Gordon, I followed her lead and tried something new with my Freshmen College Prep Students. I'd been teaching Great Expectations to this age group for years and it was always a challenge for them and for me. The assigned nightly reading went unread, and if they did read, they did not understand it. Every day felt exhausting, as I would re-teach the previous night's assignment. This year, using Berit's ideas as a guide, I opted to use the novel as an in-class text, analyzing passages to teach close reading skills while the students chose books to read on their own ... Students delved into these high interest, contemporary books and made consistent, meaningful connections between Great Expectations and their independent novels. They wrote literary essays about their choice books, and took a test on Great Expectations, for which they received extremely high marks, demonstrating their mastery of a sophisticated (and previously dreaded!) text. The experiment was a huge success! Working through a complex text together with focused instruction enabled students to engage with a difficult book, and appreciate it in a way they never had before. Interestingly, they enjoyed Dickens so much that I taught more of the book than I had originally planned!" -- Ellin Glassband, High School Teacher "How can we inspire reading and critical thinking in a time of widespread student distraction and disengagement? Berit Gordon helps bridge the gap between theory and action with classroom-friendly strategies that work. Test them out, and like me, you may find your students begging for more time to read." -- Jessica Miller, English Teacher and Literacy Coach, While I had spent over 20 years implementing book clubs and independent reading in my Language Arts classroom, I had never quite approached it in the same way Berit Gordon outlined in No More Fake Reading. Now, my students are reading at least double the previous required amount, and they are thrilled with the large amount of choice. I found it effortless to create a curriculum where I match in-class texts with independent reading. The students find the more challenging texts enjoyable when sampling them rather than haranguing through the truly difficult ones or just reading spark notes!, Berit Gordon is the best word whisperer, lighting a love for words in even the most reluctant of readers and writers. Her techniques created an atmosphere of electricity in a classroom that had lost its spark for communication. Many books that I've read only speak to the strategy and provide anchor charts. Berit goes further and explains the what, why, how, and when of the strategy in use. This is key. Berit is key. For many of us, we know what we want our students to do. We just need a little direction to get there. Berit provides the map, serves as GPS, and leads us to the place where our classrooms are now abuzz with engaged readers and inspired writers.

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal428.40712

Table Of ContentAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: "What Book Should I Read Next?" Vignette of a High School ReaderCHAPTER ONE Why Are My Students Snapchatting Their Way Through The Odyssey--and What Can I Offer Instead? Why We Have to Minimize the Role of, but Not Abandon, the Classics Why We Need to Incorporate Choice Reading What the Blended Model Offers What's Next: Sparking Joy in Our ClassesCHAPTER TWO Getting Ready for the Blended Model How to Set Up Your Classes So Students Really Read Possible Follow-Up StepsCHAPTER THREE Building a Blended Curriculum for Fiction-Based Units Why Start With Fiction? What's Important to Know About This Planning Process Before Diving In? Getting Started How to Make Your Unit Pop and Avoid Potential PitfallsCHAPTER FOUR Building a Blended Curriculum for Nonfiction-Based Units Why Nonfiction? What's Important to Know About Planning Nonfiction Units Before Diving In What to Do When Your Students Are Choosing to Read Novels and It's Time to Teach Nonfiction How to Plan a Nonfiction Unit Based on Your Class Text How to Make Your Unit Pop and Avoid Potential Pitfalls Why What You Just Planned Is ImportantCHAPTER FIVE What to Plan for Day to Day Crafting Daily Lesson Plans Breakdown of the Period or Block Ten Minutes of Focused Teacher-Led Instruction Transitioning Into Reading Time What Students Are Doing in Addition to Reading: Writing, Thinking, and Questioning Teach Readers to Demonstrate Their Thinking About Reading: Modeling What to Do With Students' Writing About Reading: Assessment and Differentiation Closing Out the Class Training Ground for ReadersCHAPTER SIX Bring Talk Into Your Blended Reading Classroom Why We Need to Teach Our Students Ways to Talk About Books How to Bring in Talk in Meaningful Ways If They're Not All Reading the Same Book, What Are Students Talking About? Time for Shared Texts, Too How Often We Incorporate Talk Into Reading Time Why Talk Boosts Our TeachingCHAPTER SEVEN Assessing Readers: Grading That's Useful and User-Friendly Formative Ongoing Assessments That Won't Make You Hate Your Job Summative Assessments How to Stay Sane When GradingCHAPTER EIGHT Building Teacher-Student Relationships Through the Blended Model Why the Blended Model Opens Up Space for Powerful One-on-One Teaching How to Talk to Students About Their Reading What We Can Expect as a Result of Talking to Students About ReadingFinal Words We're Ready to Embrace ChangeResources Resource 1: Our Book Reviews: Sample Assignment for Sharing Choice Books Resource 2: Technology Integration Ideas to Support Choice Reading Resource 3: My Reading Goals: Student Sample Resource 4: Bookmark Calendar Template Resource 5: Sample Grade 10 Unit Plan: The Scarlet Letter Resource 6: Unit Planning Template Resource 7: Sample Grade 8 Unit Plan: The Outsiders Resource 8: Sample Grade 11 Unit Plan: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Resource 9: Reading Notebook Prompts: Transfer of Skills to Choice Books Resource 10: Examples of Realistic Fiction Book Club Annotations and Analysis Resource 11: Choice Read or Class Novel Check-In: How Do You Know They're Really Reading? Resource 12: Reading Notebook Rubric Sample 1 Resource 13: Reading Notebook Rubric Sample 2 Resource 14: Reading Notebook Rubric Sample 3 Resource 15: Sample Essay Assignment, Outline, and Rubric Using Choice Book Resource 16: Sample Literary Analysis Essay Assignment for Choice BookReferencesIndex

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

SynopsisWith the blended model, teachers lead close examinations of key passages from classic texts, guiding students to an understanding of important reading strategies that they can transfer to their choice books. Teachers gain a platform for demonstrating the critical reading skills students so urgently require, and students thrive on reading what they want to read. In this research-backed book, teachers are also shown the basics of creating a classroom library and how to build a blended curriculum for both fiction and non-fiction units., For middle and high-school teachers, it's one of today's most vexing problems, How do you motivate students with varied interests and little appetite for classic literature to stop faking their way through texts and start advancing as skilled, engaged readers? Independent reading is an important part of the answer, but it's just that-a part of the whole. In this groundbreaking book, Berit Gordon offers the complete solution, a blended model that combines the benefits of classic literature with the motivational power of choice reading. With the blended model, teachers lead close examinations of key passages from classic texts, guiding students to an understanding of important reading strategies they can transfer to their choice books. Teachers gain a platform for demonstrating the critical reading skills students so urgently require, and students thrive on reading what they want to read. In this research-backed book, Gordon leads you step-by step to classroom success with the blended model, showing, The basics of getting your classroom library up and running, How to build a blended curriculum for both fiction and nonfiction units, keeping relevant standards in mind, Tips and resources to help with day-to-day planning, Ideas for selecting class-novel passages that provide essential cultural capital and bolster students' reading skills, Strategies for bringing talk into your blended reading classroom, How to reach the crucial learning goal of transfer, A practical, user-friendly approach for assessing each student's progress, No More Fake Reading gives you all the tools you need to put the blended model to work for your students and transform your classroom into a vibrant reading environment. Book jacket., This ground-breaking book combines the benefits of classic literature with the motivational power of choice reading to create vibrant reading environments., For middle- and high-school teachers, it's one of today's most vexing problems: How do you motivate students with varied interests and little appetite for classic literature to stop faking their way through texts and start advancing as skilled, engaged readers? Independent reading is an important part of the answer, but it's just that -- a part of the whole. In this groundbreaking book, Berit Gordon offers the complete solution, a blended model that combines the benefits of classic literature with the motivational power of choice reading. With the blended model, teachers lead close examinations of key passages from classic texts, guiding students to an understanding of important reading strategies they can transfer to their choice books. Teachers gain a platform for demonstrating the critical reading skills students so urgently require, and students thrive on reading what they want to read. In this research-backed book, Gordon leads you step by step to classroom success with the blended model, showing: The basics of getting your classroom library up and running How to build a blended curriculum for both fiction and non-fiction units, keeping relevant standards in mind Tips and resources to help with day-to-day planning Ideas for selecting class novel passages that provide essential cultural capital and bolster students' reading skills Strategies for bringing talk into your blended reading classroom How to reach the crucial learning goal of transfer A practical, user-friendly approach for assessing each student's progress No More Fake Reading gives you all the tools you need to put the blended model to work for your students and transform your classroom into a vibrant reading environment. Berit Gordon coaches teachers as they nurture lifelong readers and writers. Her path as an educator began in the classroom in the Dominican Republic before teaching in New York City public schools. She also taught at the Teachers College of Columbia University in English Education. She currently works as a literacy consultant in grades 3-12 and lives in Maplewood, New Jersey with her husband and three children.

LC Classification NumberLB1632.G62 2018