Table of Contents

1. The Core Purposes of Reading
2. How Smart Readers Think
3. Why Textbooks Are Not Enough
4. Toward a Balanced Diet of Reading
5. Tools for Thinking: Reading Strategies Across the Curriculum 

LESSONS

  • Think-Alouds
  • Reading Aloud
  • Frontloading with Images
  • KWL
  • Prereading Quiz (PRQ)
  • Dramatic Role-Play
  • Vocabulary Predictions
  • Partner Reading
  • Post-it Response Notes
  • Annotating Text
  • Coding Text
  • Multicolumn Notes
  • Sketching My Way Through the Text 
  • Turn and Talk 
  • Tweet the Text 
  • Exit Slips and Admit Slips 
  • Word Wall 
  • Word Meaning Graphic Organizer 
  • Vocabulary Tree 
  • List-Group-Label
  • Clustering and Mapping 
  • Written Conversation 
  • Second Helpings 
  • Where Do You Stand?
  • RAFT Essay 
  • Password

6. How to Use a Textbook
7. Building a Community of Learners
8. Independent Reading Workshop in Content Areas
9. Content-Area Book Clubs
10. Inquiry Units
11. Help for Struggling Readers
12. Recommendations from Reading Research