Layers of Learning

Using Read-Alouds to Connect Literacy and Caring Conversations

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What if we viewed every read aloud as an invitation to learn more about literacy and ourselves? When we layer together the two ideas that the books we share not only serve an academic purpose, but they also convey big, affective messages, our classroom conversations become richer and student learning becomes more meaningful.

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Layers of Learning explores read-aloud strategies designed to enhance your reading and writing standards by capitalizing on the way literature can impact caring communities. With over 200 picture-book suggestions, author JoEllen McCarthy introduces the Heartprint Framework, which demonstrates how you can layer literacy and life lessons throughout your day using multiple connections across learning.

Inside, you’ll find the following:

60 read-aloud-based connections that support caring classroom conversations, lesson planning, and extensions
Instructional opportunities for nurturing readers and writers during workshop, small-group, and individual conversations
Literacy Snapshot photo essays with ideas to adopt or adapt
Continuing connections with additional resources and invitations for further learning

Layers of Learning is structured around four key elements: Community, Agency, Respect, and Empowerment, or CARE. Inside you’ll discover the tools you need to emphasize reading and writing connections, character education, and culturally responsive teaching, while championing the power of read alouds to affect independent readers, writers, and thinkers. This book aims to shift literacy instruction and social-emotional learning from either-or choice to responsive yes-ands.

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JoEllen McCarthy

JoEllen McCarthy is a lifelong learner and staff developer who spends her days facilitating collaborative coaching conversations that support a curriculum of children and emphasize literacy as a vehicle to care. As the Educator Collaborative’s Book Ambassador, JoEllen spreads her enthusiasm for the role literature plays in all aspects of education.

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This book is going to help so many people encounter the best short texts this world has to offer our students, and we are lucky that JoEllen has spent her career working so hard to build and share this knowledge.

Kate and Maggie Roberts

authors and guest teachers
If JoEllen McCarthy were a chef, then Layers of Learning would be her cookbook. These carefully selected recipes for read-alouds are inventive and engaging. With heartlove, she breaks down the science and the art of sharing picture books. Come on in her kitchen, the results are delicious.

Kwame Alexander

New York Times Bestselling author, winner of the Newbery (The Crossover), and Caldecott (The Undefeated), and the founding editor of Versify
In this important book, JoEllen McCarthy reminds us that the heart of read-aloud is in the community. Read-aloud routines have the power to support readers and create safe spaces for students to make sense of our world and more.

Franki Sibberson

teacher, author, and NCTE past-president
Layers of Learning stole my heart from beginning to end. It is practical, passionate, and compassionate. It is the guide you want to have at hand, to refer to often, throughout your teaching day and year.

Georgia Heard

author, poet, and Teachers College Reading and Writing Project founding member
JoEllen McCarthy masterfully weaves together reading and writing instruction through the lens of social emotional learning to help students understand themselves, each other, and the world. Using books as co-teachers, Layers of Learning guides readers to identify the why and recognize that “literacy has the power to influence and change lives.”

Kristin Ziemke

Innovation Specialist Big Shoulders Fund and co-author Amplify and Read the World
Layers of Learning provides an amazing array of powerful picture books to connect hearts and learning. Through a teacher-friendly framework, JoEllen McCarthy invites us into ways we can blur the lines between our hearts, our heads, and our hands.

John Schu

Scholastic Book Ambassador
This wonderful book takes teachers by the hand and heart and leads them on a journey of connection to picture books, themselves, and their students of any age. Inspiring. Motivating. A reminder of the impact teachers have on kids' lives. This spectacular guide makes me long to teach again.

Lynda Mullaly Hunt

New York Times best-selling author of Fish in a Tree and Shouting at the Rain
JoEllen McCarthy’s heart shines through each sentence with a focus on building community and finding our common humanity through story with a spotlight on the natural connections between reading and writing.

Lester Laminack

professor emeritus, Western Carolina University
Layers of Learning goes beyond lists of texts with McCarthy's thoughtful curation of books and literacy activities that create and nurture communities of readers and writers... a must-read for all educators as it moves us to consider an intentional weaving of texts for discussions and ways to bring community and family literacies into the classroom space.

Carla España

coauthor of En Comunidad: Lessons for Centering the Voices and Experiences of Bilingual Latinx Students and Bank Street Graduate School of Education, Bilingual/TESOL Program instructor
Layers of Learning beats with energy, joy, passion, and love for reading. One of JoEllen McCarthy's most beloved gifts is her encyclopedic knowledge of books and, wow, she jam-packed this resource with titles and teaching ideas! Layers of Learning is a love letter to the power of community, built with books, and led by the care of children.

Christopher Lehman

Founding Director of The Educator Collaborative
Picture books humanize us, making the world both simple and abstract at the same time.... JoEllen's practical strategies as well as the ideological rationale behind them will be useful for teachers looking to refresh their ideas of what is possible through read-alouds while simultaneously making their teaching practice more equitable, representative, and humanistic.

Julia Torres

teacher librarian, Denver Public Schools

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