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Teaching Reading Across the Day, Grades K-8

Methods and Structures for Engaging, Explicit Instruction

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"Reading well across disciplines and within varied contexts will help students to be versatile, flexible, deep readers who can better learn from their reading, transfer skills across subjects, and use strategies to meet the unique demands of reading in each content area."
– Jennifer Serravallo 

Research-based, easy-to-use lesson structures for explicit and engaging teaching

In Teaching Reading Across the Day, literacy expert Jennifer Serravallo provides nine effective, predictable, research-based lesson structures that help busy teachers save planning time and focus their teaching—and student attention—on content rather than procedures. Each of the nine lesson structures (read aloud, phonics and spelling, vocabulary, focus, shared reading, close reading, guided inquiry, reader's theater, and conversation) has its own chapter and features a wealth of resources that let you see the lessons in action in ELA, Science, and Social Studies classes, including:

  • An annotated teaching vignette, lesson explanation, and research notes
  • Tips for planning, structure and timing suggestions, and ideas for responsive teaching
  • Detailed planning templates and 22 accompanying online videos covering over 3 hours of classroom footage
  • Jen's reflections, key look-fors, and ideas for next steps
  • The nine lesson structures can be used with any curriculum or core program, text, and subject, making it easier for teachers to maximize explicit and engaging teaching time across the day, and simplify planning and preparation.

    Jen incorporates a wide range of compelling research about how best to teach reading to every student in your class and translates the research (or the science of teaching reading) into high-leverage moves you can count on to deliver powerful lessons again and again. She also honors the art of teaching reading, helping teachers tap into their experience and hone their expertise to make quick, effective classroom decisions that take student learning to the next level.

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      • School Library Journal

        June 14, 2024

        This timely, thorough text from educator and author Serravallo (The Reading Strategies Book) presents a convincing case for integrating reading throughout K-8 students' school day, as well as concrete strategies and structures for making it happen. After two chapters focused on the foundations of reading education and the importance of explicit reading instruction across the disciplines, the subsequent chapters each highlight a specific structure for explicitly engaging students in reading, from read-alouds to reader's theater. Each chapter in this "Lesson Structures" section is full of detailed examples, research, and resources for lesson planning. Serravallo employs a consistent format in each chapter, opening with an annotated lesson example before providing summaries of the research related to this lesson type, considerations for planning, videos of sample lessons in action, and practical suggestions for teaching the lesson structure. The content of the book is sound, but the text does suffer somewhat from its design choices. The use of annotations in text bubbles for the example-lesson discussions and lesson plans is distracting and breaks the flow of the text for readers. Furthermore, in some chapters, nearly every element is in some sort of chart, colored box, text box, callout, or other visual design. These choices might make it difficult to read the book as a full text and, instead, readers may find themselves picking and choosing what sections or specifics to explore. VERDICT Despite cluttered formatting, this book provides excellent resources for employing a variety of engaging reading strategies that have wide applicability across K-8 contexts. Purchase for libraries with a focus on reading, explicit instruction, or a new curriculum.-Mary Kamela

        Copyright 2024 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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