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HistoryThis is a great book for ESL teachers, new teachers and even seasoned teachers that need to help their kids think higher level and need help with comprehension. I have enjoyed everything in it!!! I am not finished but I am already implementing many of the ideas for comprehension. This purchase has been the best money I have spent in a long time!
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I am a teacher of 5th - 8th grade students who are "dependant" readers. This book offers very well researched methods for instruction that allow teachers to reach and teach their own dependant readers. The writing is clear and respectful to both the reader and their students. The ideas are backed by theory but once read can be implemented the next day. I have seen some of the ideas in practice with the teachers I work with...
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One day, while at a bookstore, I was looking for a resource book that could help me with our strugging sixth, seventh, and eighth grade readers. In my hands, I held two books and planned to buy one. One book was "When Kids Can't Read, What Teachers Can Do" written by Kylene Beers. I honestly don't remember the name of the other book for, I as looked through the two, it was clear which would be the more useful. I bought...
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Passion. Voice. Soul. Reality. This book has all of this and more. It has substance. I wish I had been given this book when i was teaching Middle School and High School. I wish I had known then what I have now learned, now that I am a retired teacher after 37 years of teaching.This is a book that makes sense in all its many pages, as to what teachers can and ought to do, WHEN KIDS CAN'T READ. I loved the idea that...
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This isn't just revolutionary; it's revelationary. This is a book to make any teacher who has ever taught from 6 th grade on up have hope once more. It arms you with weapons of mass instruction, specific mass instruction. It brings a reader to the land of read and reread, much as the writing project brought the writer into the land of rewrite. So many techniques, so many strategies, so many ok methods that beguile the...
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