Reviews for Active Literacy Across the Curriculum: Strategies for Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening: Strategies for Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening

The average rating for Active Literacy Across the Curriculum: Strategies for Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening: Strategies for Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-11-11 00:00:00 Ji Eun Lee Read it for work. Tedious for a subject that should be so much fun.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-01-04 00:00:00 Tom Glover Samantha Bennett visits six practitioners of workshop teaching, from 1st to 8th grade, and shares their structures, rituals, routines, and systems as they show a Goldsberg's Variations-worth of activities teachers can do if they want to talk less and allow kids the time to SHOW what they KNOW via time -- time to write, read, talk, and listen. Using a "catch and release" metaphor (fishing, you see), Bennett shows how teachers should constantly pull the kids in for debriefing and mini-lessons to help show them how it's done before re-releasing them for more workshop tasks. The book provides detailed examples and cites all of the sources these teachers are drawing upon to execute the lessons. There's something of value no matter what grade you teach (or even if you are a parent). Worth a look if you're curious about the conditions that kids need to learn.