Drawing on their own lives as Readers and writers and years of experience working in classrooms as coaches, staff developers, and consultants, Dorothy Barnhouse and Vicki Vinton offer practical tips for meeting today\'s rigorous standards while reminding us of the deeper, enduring purposes and Process of reading.
Dorothy also teaches graduate and undergraduate writing workshops and has received several grants for her writing, i.
She is currently a literacy consultant working in elementary, middle, and high schools in New York City and across the country.
A freelance editor and writer for many years, she began Teaching through a fellowship at the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project.
She has built her professional life around her love of reading and writing.
About the Author: Dorothy Barnhouse is the coauthor of the Heinemann title What Readers Really Do.
And it will remind both you and your students why and how we Really read.
Filled with student voices and classroom examples including read-alouds, small groups, and conferences, What Readers Really Do will challenge, inspire, and empower you to become the insightful, independent teacher your students need you to be.
Along the way, you\'ll learn how to: notice and name What students are doing as Readers to build their identity and agency move beyond simple strategy instruction to step students into more complex texts show students how Readers draft and revise as they read to promote engagement, self-monitoring, and deeper comprehension.
And you\'ll look into the authors\' own Teaching minds and hearts as they unpack the moves and decisions they make to design and implement instruction that allows every student to make significant and personally relevant Meaning of texts.
In What Readers Really Do, you\'ll peer into the minds and hearts of Readers to notice the often invisible thinking work that goes into Making Meaning of texts-from comprehending where a scene is taking place to constructing thematic interpretations.
Drawing on their own lives as Readers and writers and years of experience working in classrooms as coaches, staff developers, and consultants, Dorothy Barnhouse and Vicki Vinton offer practical tips for meeting today\'s rigorous standards while reminding us of the deeper, enduring purposes and Process of reading
