This package has 3 components:          Reflections on Literacy (also available separately  A compilation of short articles, each focusing on a key area of literacy A brief review of research underpinnings An outline of the broad implications for classroom practice               Literacy Talk  A facilitator's guide to purposeful, organized and focused professional dialogue about any of the topics, or topic clusters, in Reflections on Literacy. These 30 to 90-minute sessions can be for:  teachers, administrators, lead literacy teachers, and/or consultants staff from a school or from a number of schools staff meetings, professional activity or development days, after-school workshops, school training days                Instruction DVD  A 45-minute video in three parts featuring Dr. Frank Serafini presenting ideas about professional learning communities and a vision for literacy, with prompts to foster dialogue.  Part 1:      The Four Major Principles of Professional Learning Communities Part 2:     Structures of Effective Professional Learning Part 3:     A Vision for Literacy Instruction

Reflections on Literacy

Education & Teaching

Serafini, Frank

MacFarlane, Norma

Schools & Teaching

Pearson Education Canada

With so many different approaches to teaching reading, how can you make sense of the best paths available? If you begin with Frank Serafini's The Reading Workshop, you can be certain that each step you take will leave a lasting impression. By describing his day-to-day schedule and giving an overview of how the workshop operates over time, he provides a flexible framework you can adapt and implement to suit your needs. And by bringing his love of literature to bear on his instructional ideas, Serafini shows how you can help students learn to read so they want to. 
 Serafini explains how various practices - literature circles, read alouds, shared reading, and strategy groups - can be incorporated into teaching and how "preplanned engagements" can blend seamlessly with "response-centered" instruction. Suggestions for setting up a classroom library and museum, selecting multicultural literature and cornerstone books, starting the literature study cycle, and creating "shoebox autobiographies," "invested student discussions," and other student projects are accompanied by helpful charts, diagrams, and visuals to help you get started and keep students involved. Throughout the book, examples and vignettes from Serafini's classroom experiences offer vivid testaments to the effectiveness of his workshop approach, even for the most reluctant readers.

The Reading Workshop: Creating Space for Readers

Heard, Georgia

Heinemann

Plumbing his file drawers for 64 of the most effective comprehension minilessons from his distinguished teaching career, Serafini has created a teaching treasure trove that contains nearly a year's worth of comprehension instruction plus an extensive list of children's literature that he has successfully woven into his own reading workshop. Lessons in Comprehension introduces and reinforces meaning-making concepts through eight broad thematic strands that scaffold understanding and responsibility for novice readers: <ul>
<li>Inviting Children into the World of Reading and Literature</li> <li>Exploring the Structures and Components of Literature</li> <li>Navigating Text</li> <li>Promoting Invested Literature Discussions</li> <li>Developing Comprehension Practices</li> <li>Investigating Informational Texts</li> <li>Extending Response to Literature</li> <li>Examining Critical Perspectives.</li> </ul>
Within each strand, eight lessons take students deep into key comprehension strategies like visualization, journaling, and previewing texts. Tried, proven, and grounded in the latest scientific-based research, each substantial lesson offers a complete framework to take you and your students from theory through guided practice and beyond. And, unique among books on the reading workshop, each lesson also features Serafini's own classroom-honed language-the perfect model to adapt for explicit instruction in any reading classroom. These lessons fit seamlessly together and provide the instructional backbone for learners of every level and ability. "Effective teachers teach," writes Serafini, and in effective reading workshops explicit instruction provides an important link between the written word and an emerging reader's ability to both interact with texts and understand them. Read Lessons in Comprehension, trust Serafini, and help your students learn the strategies they need to comprehend a variety of texts.

Lessons in Comprehension: Explicit Instruction in the Reading Workshop

Pearson, P. David

Lessons in Comprehension helped your students improve their comprehension. Now take your readers to the next level with More (Advanced) Lessons in Comprehension. With More (Advanced) Lessons in Comprehension Frank Serafini and Suzette Youngs present 64 new, more sophisticated lessons for elementary and middle school readers. Lessons that make explicit the skills students need to engage with a wide variety of texts of increasing complexity. You'll help students: <ul>
<li>develop layered, personal interpretations of texts and visual images </li> <li>discuss and negotiate their interpretations within a community of readers </li> <li>read more deeply across genres and sustain interpretations across longer texts </li> <li>think critically about their reading and analyze texts from a variety of theoretical perspectives. </li> </ul>
More (Advanced) Lessons in Comprehension also offers you a powerful new tool for assessing your teaching and its effectiveness. Its Instructional Trajectory allows you to: <ul>
<li>plan instruction with longer-term comprehension goals in mind </li> <li>keep teaching relevant to students' real-life needs </li> <li>make sure that everything readers do moves them toward deeper comprehension. </li> </ul>
More (Advanced) Lessons in Comprehension is a complete resource. It's supported by the actual classroom language that Serafini and Youngs use with their students as well as examples of all the forms, charts, and artifacts related to each lesson. If you've already taught with Lessons in Comprehension, pick up More (Advanced) Lessons in Comprehension. Or if you've just discovered Serafini and Youngs' approach, try More (Advanced) Lessons in Comprehension in your classroom. Either way, you'll find that More (Advanced) Lessons in Comprehension deepens students' understanding - one ready-to-use lesson at a time. To purchase More (Advanced) Lessons in Comprehension: Expanding Students' Understanding of All Types of Texts as an eBook, click here.

More (Advanced) Lessons in Comprehension: Expanding Students' Understanding of All Types of Texts

Youngs, Suzette

The value of assessment is in its usefulness to the teacher and the student, not as an isolated mental activity. If we don't use the information we generate about our students to inform our instruction, we are simply "navel-gazing." Frank Serafini Need to know more about your readers? Frustrated by test-driven assessments that merely mimic real reading behaviors. Classroom Reading Assessments returns assessment to its simple, crucial essence: knowing students-really knowing them-so that your teaching addresses their individual strengths and needs. Frank Serafini helps you open windows into students' invisible mental processes as they select books, read and make sense of them, and respond to them. He gives you his best of the best-classroom-proven, research-based assessments for before, during, and after reading that meet four stringent requirements: <ul>
<li>They improve your students' reading</li> <li>They increase your effectiveness by pinpointing where students need help</li> <li>They maximize efficiency by avoiding unnecessary instructional interruptions </li> <li>They make sharing what you learn about students-with parents, other teachers, and instructional leaders-simple, direct, and useful.</li> </ul>
At heineman.com, Frank even provides his most helpful customizable reproducible forms for assessment. "We have to know the students in our rooms in deeper, more significant ways if we expect to be able to teach them more effectively and support their development as readers," writes Frank Serafini. Whether you need flexible assessment tools for RTI, or you're looking for clearer windows into your readers' thinking, Classroom Reading Assessments is your guide to doable, high-quality assessments that help everyone in the classroom learn more-including you.

Classroom Reading Assessments: More Efficient Ways to View and Evaluate Your Readers

As reading teachers, how do we deal with the massive shifts that digital literacy is creating? We can't abandon what we know works to keep up with the latest online-literacy fads. Yet, we need to prepare readers for a world of digital content. Reading Workshop 2.0 gives us teaching that puts reading for meaning first while also balancing the need for kids to become sophisticated users of books as well as online reading resources. "This book," writes Frank Serafini, "is designed to help teachers organize their reading workshops in order to take advantage of the latest technologies." With his guidance, you'll bring more digital reading into your teaching without sacrificing sound instructional principles or practices. Reading print shares four essential processes with digital reading: accessing and navigating; archiving and sharing; commenting and discussing; and interpreting and analyzing. Frank introduces important, well-established digitally based resources that further these processes, while his lesson ideas transfer learning from classroom to real-world digital reading. "If it doesn't help children develop as readers," writes Frank Serafini, "it doesn't matter how shiny the new object is." With Reading Workshop 2.0, you'll help students with print while also helping them use online resources and technologies as they are intended-to make sense of texts more deeply, effectively, and efficiently.

Reading Workshop 2.0: Supporting Readers in the Digital Age

Classroom Reading Assessments (Print eBook Bundle): More Efficient Ways to View and Evaluate Your Readers

More (Advanced) Lessons in Comprehension (Print eBook Bundle): Expanding Students' Understanding of All Types of Texts

One of the hallmarks of an effective reading program is the energetic conversation that surrounds a text students are engaged in reading. Teachers can determine their students' comprehension of the text based on the kinds of questions students ask and the connections they build across text and to their own life stories. In this resource, Frank Serafini shares the strategies that he uses to maximize the effectiveness of these conversations. You'll find teacher think-alouds for modeling comprehension strategies, questioning prompts, grouping tips, and interactive discussion techniques. For use with Grades K–8.

Interactive Comprehension Strategies: Fostering Meaningful Talk About Text

Scholastic Teaching Resources: Theory and Practice

La forêt

Children's Books

Science, Nature & How It Works

Editions Scholastic

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