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Who's Doing the Work?
How to Say Less So Readers Can Do More
Explore how some traditional scaffolding practices may actually rob students of important learning opportunities and independence.
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Following up on Reading Wellness, Jan Burkins and Kim Yaris explore how some traditional scaffolding practices may actually rob students of important learning opportunities and independence. Who’s Doing the Work? suggests ways to make small but powerful adjustments to instruction that hold students accountable for their own learning.
Educators everywhere are concerned about students whose reading development inexplicably plateaus, as well as those who face challenging texts without applying the strategies they’ve been taught. When such problems arise, our instinct is to do more. But when we summarize text before reading or guide students when they encounter difficult words, are we leading them to depend on our support? If we want students to use strategies independently, Jan and Kim believe that we must question the ways our scaffolding is getting in the way.
Next generation reading instruction is responsive to students’ needs, and it develops readers who can integrate reading strategies without prompting from instructors. In Who’s Doing The Work?, Jan and Kim examine how instructional mainstays such as read-aloud, shared reading, guided reading, and independent reading look in classrooms where students do more of the work. Classroom snapshots at the end of each chapter help translate the ideas in the book into practice.
Who’s Doing the Work? offers a vision for adjusting reading instruction to better align with the goal of creating independent, proficient, and joyful readers.
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About the Author(s)
Table of Contents
Foreword by Joan Moser
Acknowledgments
Introduction: What Painting, Housework, and Designing Sofas Can Teach Us About Developing Agentive Readers
Chapter 1: Reading Process: Beginning with the End in Mind
Chapter 2: Read-Aloud: Giving Students a Reason to Learn to Read
Chapter 3: Shared Reading: Bridging the Gap Between Read-Aloud and Guided Reading
Chapter 4: Guided Reading: Reading Practice Under the Teacher's Watchful Eye
Chapter 5: Indepdendent Reading: Learning to Love to Read
Chapter 6: Putting It All Together
References
Index
