Challenge Thinking and Deepen Understanding: The Instructional Approach for Implementing the Common Core Standards, Grades 3-12

by Lisa A. Fisher

Overview

With new standards adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia, this professional text will address strategies to utilize in order to address the Common Core State Standards with reading closely to deepen understanding of informational text. This professional text offers why and what the English Language Arts (ELA) Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are, how to implement strategies aligned with the standards, and the importance behind text complexity and rigor. All of the strategies can be used no matter what standards are being taught and in any discipline.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781475808544
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/23/2014
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Lisa Fisher is a full-time Grant Resource Specialist for Reading 6-12 for Pasco County Schools in Florida. In this capacities she serves and supports all teachers to provide tier 2 supports for all students to read and write critically about a wide-range of text. She is a literacy leader with a passion to help the struggling and reluctant learner to find success. Lisa’s other professional writings include Read, Write, and Learn: Using Literacy Groups to Student Advantage (2010), Surviving the Move and Learning to Thrive: Tools for Success in Secondary Schools, Grades 6-12 (2011), and a chapter entitled “A Splash of Color with a Dash of Discovery Makes One Great Shade” in Empowering The Voice of the Teacher Researcher: Achieving Success through a Culture of Inquiry edited by Roger Brindley and Christine Crocco (2009). She continues to reside in Florida with her husband and four Chihuahuas.

Table of Contents

Figure List
Table List
Appendix Lists
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Preface
Chapter One: Understand Reading Closely: Multiple Interactions with Text
Chapter Two: Open the Mind with Change Perspective: A Reading Closely Approach
Chapter Three: Actively Read with Preview/Review
Chapter Four: Game Changer with Strategic Approach
Chapter Five: Stretch Into High Cognitive Literacy Tasks
Chapter Six: Multiple Interactions with Literary Texts
Appendix
References
Literature References
About the Author

Editorial Reviews

Challenge Thinking and Deepen Understanding was perfect and I was able to use strategies the very next day with my students. I have also had many other teachers from the school tell me how they implemented some of the strategies and they had great success in their classrooms using them. Lisa Fisher has inspired me to be a better teacher.

Joan Brownstein

I've used several of the strategies from Challenge Thinking and Deepen Understanding with my students. Honoring people's time to read silently totally works.

Kim Madrigal

Challenge Thinking and Deepen Understanding pushes students to think deeply and differently about text. It requires them to consider an alternative perspective when approaching text and a new purpose for learning its content. As a result, students become more critical readers and thinkers.

Andrea Altman