Jeffrey D. Wilhelm

Michael W. Smith

Deborah Appleman

Leave instruction to the experts! Uncommon Core puts us on high-alert about some outright dangerous misunderstandings looming around so-called “standards-aligned” instruction, then shows us how to steer past them—all in service of meeting the real intent of the Common Core. It counters with teaching suggestions that are true to the research and true to our students, including how: Reader-based approaches can complement text-based ones Prereading activities can help students meet the strategic and conceptual demands of texts Strategy instruction can result in a careful and critical analysis of text while providing transferable understandings Inquiry units around essential questions can generate meaningful conversation and higher-order thinking

Where the Authors of the Standards Go Wrong About Instruction-and How You Can Get It Right

Uncommon Core

This book provides a wealth of enactment techniques that help students apply their social, physical, and intellectual selves to the books they read to help improve their comprehension.

Action Strategies for Deepening Comprehension

Michael William Smith

Uses interviews and observations with a group of forty-nine young men to describe their motivations, apply the information to improving literacy skills, and suggest ways to improve classroom practice.

Literacy in the Lives of Young Men

Reading Don't Fix No Chevys

James E. Fredricksen

Presents a reference guide for educators on how to teach their students the fundamentals of writing, discussing, analyzing, and presenting effective arguments, using the Common Core State Standards as guidelines.

Putting Argument to Work Both in School and Out

Oh, Yeah?!

"Drawing on the research that won 'Reading Don't Fix No Chevys' the NCTE David H. Russell Award, Smith and Wilhelm take Chevys out of the showroom onto the road, presenting classroom-tested units, lessons, and activities that get boys reading and writing and keep them involved in literacy learning. Going with the Flow fully illustrates their approach to designing and sequencing instruction, taking you from developing activities that prepare students for success before they are even given assignments to fostering meaningful classroom discussions. Even if you haven't read 'Reading Don't Fix No Chevys,' Smith and Wilhelm provide a succinct summation of their research to get you started, then give you classroom transcripts, lesson-planning tips, and strategies for interacting with students to help you implement their ideas--Amazon.com.

How to Engage Boys (and Girls) in Their Literacy Learning

Going with the Flow

Bruce Novak

This book lays out a new vision for the teaching of English, building on themes central to Wilhelm's influential "You Gotta BE The Book." With portraits of teachers and students, as well as practical strategies and advice, they provide a roadmap to educational transformation far beyond the field of English. --from publisher description

Being the Book and Being the Change

Teaching Literacy for Love and Wisdom

Presents lessons and instructional aides that cover character, point of view, setting, and theme.

How to Teach what Really Matters about Character, Setting, Point of View, and Theme

Fresh Takes on Teaching Literary Elements

Brenda Miller Power

Kelly Chandler-Olcott

Discusses using King's works in the classroom

Issues of Censorship, Student Choice, and Popular Literature

Reading Stephen King

This award-winning book continues to resonate with teachers and inspire their teaching because it focuses on the joy of reading and how it can engage and even transform readers. In a time of next generation standards that emphasize higher-order strategies, text complexity, and the reading of nonfiction, "You Gotta BE the Book" continues to help teachers meet new challenges including those of increasing cultural diversity. At the core of Wilhelm's foundational text is an in-depth account of what highly motivated adolescent readers actually do when they read, and how to help struggling readers take on those same stances and strategies. His work offers a robust model teachers can use to prepare students for the demands of disciplinary understanding and for literacy in the real world. The Third Edition includes new commentaries and tips for using visual techniques, drama and action strategies, think-aloud protocols, and symbolic story representation/reading manipulatives. Book Features: A data-driven theory of literature and literary reading as engagement. A case for undertaking teacher research with students. An approach for using drama and visual art to support readers' comprehension. Guidance for assisting students in the use of higher-order strategies of reading (and writing) as required by next generation standards like the Common Core. Classroom interventions to help all students, especially reluctant ones, become successful readers.

Jeffrey D. Wilhelm

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