Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to bring the Science of Reading into the Balanced Literacy Classroom has arrived! It is now shipping from Amazon and from Stenhouse.com. Kari Yates and I are so excited to support your thinking as you move beyond either/or thinking and "shift" to both/and practices.
Who's doing the work?
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Who's Doing the Work? explores how some traditional scaffolding practices may actually rob students of important learning opportunities and independence. It suggests ways to make small but powerful adjustments to instruction that hold students accountable for their own learning.
Jan Burkins and Kim Yaris examine how instructional mainstays such as read-aloud, shared reading, guided reading, and independent reading look in classrooms where students do more of the work. Who’s Doing the Work? offers a vision for adjusting reading instruction to better align with the goal of creating independent, proficient, and joyful readers. |
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Who's doing the work?
Lesson Set Kits for Grades 3-5
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In this much-awaited classroom resource, Jan Burkins and Kim Yaris provide a roadmap for 3-5 teachers interested in implementing the ideas from their bestselling book, Who’s Doing the Work? How to Say Less So Readers Can Do More. The lesson sets map out a systematic approach to helping upper elementary students grow into independent and proficient readers. The 30 lessons in each grade level work well in conjunction with other reading programs and provide teachers a scaffold for bringing the ideas from Who’s Doing the Work? to life in your classroom. These lessons provide an accessible introduction to Next Generation Read-Aloud, Next Generation Shared Reading, Next Generation Guided Reading, and Next Generation Independent Reading.
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Preventing Misguided reading
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There seems to be much confusion surrounding guided reading—the term even means something different from school to school.
In Preventing Misguided Reading, Jan Burkins and Melody Croft present personal clarifications, adaptations, and supports that have helped them work through the tricky parts as they guide readers. The book’s six chapters each clarify a misunderstanding about guided reading instruction, including the teacher's role in the gradual release of responsibility, instructional reading level, "balanced" instruction, integrated processing, and assessment. |
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Reading Wellness:
lessons in independence and Proficiency
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Built around a framework of four intentions—alignment, balance, sustainability, and joy--Reading Wellness offers teachers a series of lessons that help children read closely and carefully while still honoring their interests, passions, and agency as readers. The lessons here, which have been field-tested in grades 1-5, are interconnected and empower classroom communities, are filled with anecdotes and insights, and are practical, sustainable, and frequently joyful.
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