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Literacy Matters: Strategies Every Teacher Can Use

by Robin J. Fogarty

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The versatile and practical handbook to promote students′ literacy and learning! Scores of children across the country do not read with comprehension, and literacy has become a national priority. In Literacy Matters, internationally recognized author, educational coach, and consultant Robin Fogarty defines and reviews 15 practical literacy approaches that teachers can use across all content areas and grade levels to help students develop essential literacy skills. This user-friendly resource provides strategies for immediate implementation with an overview of the research and best practices associated with each strategy.With an easy-to-use menu that enables teachers to select the specific strategies they want to use to boost content-area literacy and comprehension, this valuable guide explores proven instructional methods such as - Teaching metacognitive student thinking - Creating literature circles - Involving parents and community - Tapping into prior knowledge - Using technology to impact literacy acquisition Put these strategies to use in your classroom, and watch as your students improve their reading and comprehension, and apply these tools for success across content areas and in their lives!… (more)
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As a teacher librarian, are you a member of the literacy leadership team for the school? If not, get involved, and if there is no leadership team, urge administrators to form one. In such a professional learning community, the main topic of discussion will no doubt be reading skill and how to improve it. But, there shoul also be many discussions about reading widely and for pleasure. If you as a teacher librarian are unfamiliar with various strategies that help readers build skill and if others, for example, high school teachers, don’t consider themselves reading teachers, then the Fogarty book is a slim and easy way to learn simple and effective strategies. We liked this volume because it is brief, provides common tactics for building skill, and can be understood by non-reading specialists. For example, every time the professional learning community meets, one or several strategies from this book could be studied and applied in classes before the next meeting when a discussion and assessment could take place. The strategies mentioned and taught here can be used by the science teacher, the coach, the teacher librarian and anyone else by integrating the ideas into normal classroom activities without disrupting those activities. It’s worth a try. Highly recommended. ( )
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The versatile and practical handbook to promote students′ literacy and learning! Scores of children across the country do not read with comprehension, and literacy has become a national priority. In Literacy Matters, internationally recognized author, educational coach, and consultant Robin Fogarty defines and reviews 15 practical literacy approaches that teachers can use across all content areas and grade levels to help students develop essential literacy skills. This user-friendly resource provides strategies for immediate implementation with an overview of the research and best practices associated with each strategy.With an easy-to-use menu that enables teachers to select the specific strategies they want to use to boost content-area literacy and comprehension, this valuable guide explores proven instructional methods such as - Teaching metacognitive student thinking - Creating literature circles - Involving parents and community - Tapping into prior knowledge - Using technology to impact literacy acquisition Put these strategies to use in your classroom, and watch as your students improve their reading and comprehension, and apply these tools for success across content areas and in their lives!

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