Description
Engage, challenge, and inspire students with work that matters
Transformational Literacy, written by a team from EL Education, helps teachers leverage the Common Core instructional shiftsbuilding knowledge through content-rich nonfiction, reading for and writing with evidence, and regular practice with complex textto engage students in work that matters. Worthy texts and worthy tasks help students see the connection between their hard work as readers and writers and their capacity to contribute to stronger communities and a better world.
The stories, examples, and resources that permeate Transformational Literacy come primarily from the more than 150 EL Education schools around the country that support teachers to select, supplement, customize, and create curriculum, and improve instruction. The book also draws on EL Educations open source Common Core English Language Arts curriculumoften cited as one of the finest in the countryand professional development offered to thousands of teachers to implement that curriculum effectively.
Transformational Literacy combines the best of what EL Education knows works for kidspurposeful, inquiry-based learningand the new imperative of the Common Corehigher and deeper expectations for all students.
Teach standards through a compelling and purposeful curriculum that prioritizes worthy texts and worthy task
Improve students evidence-based reading, thinking, talking, and writing
Support students to develop a new mindset toward the challenge of reading complex texts
Transformational Literacy introduces an approach to literacy instruction that will engage, challenge, and inspire student with work that matters.
Author: Ron Berger,Libby Woodfin,Suzanne Nathan Plaut
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 08/18/2014
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.2lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.90w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781118962237
Language: English
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