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From Striving to Thriving: How to Grow Confident, Capable Readers
Annie Ward, Stephanie Harvey
4.39 AVERAGE
12 reviews for:
From Striving to Thriving: How to Grow Confident, Capable Readers
Annie Ward, Stephanie Harvey
4.39 AVERAGE
I read this book along with No More Reading for Junk, The Book Whisperer, and Reading in the Wild for a presentation I am giving on creating a reading community. A great deal of the ideas in this book reinforce what I have already read and it is time to put these ideas into action to create more thriving readers!
A great resource for teachers of reading and librarians! The intro by Dav Pilkey is a must read!!!!
Maybe have physical artifacts in the library to accompany displays on certain topics?
This book has fun writing activities for students in the elementary classroom that introduces students to grammar and figurative language vocabulary. What I found to be the most practical use of this book is as an assessment strategy. I could teach how to compose one of the writing tasks mentioned in the book, then teach any of my content (math, social studies, science, language arts, reading), and then re-purpose the writing task to fit an assessment need.
I don't believe that this book geared my middle schoolers for academic focused writing, so I wouldn't purchase this book for that reason (I'd look at Gretchen Bernabei, Graff & Birkenstein, Jeffrey Wilhelm instead). Why I would recommend purchasing this book is if you're struggling to fit in writing within your classroom, teach grades K-5, or are looking for fun mid-unit and end-of-unit assessment strategies that will provide a meaningful takeaway and presentation for your students.
I don't believe that this book geared my middle schoolers for academic focused writing, so I wouldn't purchase this book for that reason (I'd look at Gretchen Bernabei, Graff & Birkenstein, Jeffrey Wilhelm instead). Why I would recommend purchasing this book is if you're struggling to fit in writing within your classroom, teach grades K-5, or are looking for fun mid-unit and end-of-unit assessment strategies that will provide a meaningful takeaway and presentation for your students.
A must read for teachers! There is so much good stuff here. Practical idea, research, and personal examples abound. "Table the labels" to meet your reader where they are!
An excellent teacher winter break read! Saw this on a recent Nerdy Bookclub #titletalk Twitter Chat and put it in my Amazon cart right away. In the vein of Donalyn Miller's "Reading in the Wild" this book zooms in on what matters: creating a space where students build authentic identities as readers. In particular, it highlights practices that support striving readers in building independence and moving to agency (as defined by Peter Johnston: "the perception that the environment is responsive to our actions.") to join their "thriving" reader peers. Harvey and Ward debunk myths & common practices and harp on things that allow a classroom and school to be a space where readers can thrive. I particularly loved the chapter on classroom libraries related to book access, choice, and volume. It so eloquently summed up so many things I think we are missing in many libraries which I truly believe are the most surefire tools for building readers we so desperately need in today's world. The book ends with 1-2 page strategies they refer to in the chapters. So many nuggets of awesome, both small and large, I'll be stealing from this book ASAP.
Fantastic professional read. This is one that I will keep on my "shelf of favorites" for quick, easy access and to refer to often.
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
This book changed how I think about the students I work work with in regards to the importance of their independent reading lives, access to books of interest and higher quality, and classroom libraries.
I highly recommend this book for all educators for the sake of improving the lives of our striving readers.
I highly recommend this book for all educators for the sake of improving the lives of our striving readers.
Teachers & Librarians: move this to the top of your professional reading list.
I cannot express how much I love this book. So many reading books I read are on how to teach reading skills and strategies and it gets old. This wasn’t that at all! This was mostly how to get students reading books they are interested in, how to get them talking about books, how to up the volume of books students are reading, etc. I found it so beneficial! With not really knowing how teaching is going to look this next school year and feeling very discouraged, this book gave me a lot of great ideas that I can still do with social distancing and elearning!