NEW YORK, April 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Scholastic
(NASDAQ: SCHL), the global children's publishing, education, and
media company, today announced the release of two new professional
books that outline strategies for increasing reading achievement
with a focus on responsive literacy and fluency: Responsive
Literacy: A Comprehensive Framework edited by Patricia L. Scharer, with contributions from
members of The Ohio State University
Literacy Collaborative®, and The Megabook of Fluency: Strategies
and Texts to Engage All Readers by Timothy V. Rasinski and Melissa Cheesman Smith.
"Hearing what has worked for fellow educators with a diverse
range of backgrounds and specializations is one of the best ways
for teachers to continue their professional learning and discover
new strategies for igniting that passion for reading and writing,"
says Dr. Lois
Bridges, Vice President & Publisher, Scholastic
Education. "Responsive Literacy and The Megabook of
Fluency come from the minds of tremendously experienced
educators and are both exceptional new additions to the robust
collection of resources from Scholastic Professional that provide
teachers everywhere with clear and complete guidance for helping
all of their students become the fluent, independent, successful,
and joyful readers and writers that they can be."
Responsive Literacy: A Comprehensive Framework
edited by Patricia L. Scharer, with
contributions from members of The Ohio State
University Literacy Collaborative®
Literacy expert Patricia L.
Scharer and other educators of The Ohio
State University Literacy Collaborative®, founded by Dr.
Gay Su Pinnell, craft a
comprehensive framework, informed by decades of research and
practice, for fostering responsive literacy instruction. The book
covers six essential parts of responsive literacy instruction for
K–8 classrooms, including: professional learning; organizing for
learning; reading; writing; building blocks of language; and
learning communities. Each topic includes detailed strategies that
are individualized according to student needs and combined with
authentic text in order to increase student achievement and to
promote joyful reading and writing experiences. In addition,
educators will have online access to professional videos and
downloadable resources. Available now:
www.scholastic.com/responsiveliteracy
The Megabook of Fluency: Strategies and Texts to Engage
All Readers by Timothy V.
Rasinski and Melissa Cheesman
Smith
Fluency expert and Reading Hall of Fame member Timothy V. Rasinski joins forces with veteran
fifth-grade teacher and Arizona State
University faculty associate Melissa
Cheesman Smith to create an expansive resource that provides
engaging and authentic strategies for fluent reading in grades K–8.
The authors describe fluency as the ability to read with
Expression, Automatic word recognition, Rhythm and phrasing, and
Smoothness, the foundation for their EARS framework. The framework
is designed to help teachers weave fluency work into their
daily reading instruction with more than 50 engaging, ready-to-use
skill-building strategies that are supported by text, practical
lessons, an assessment scale, and tips for involving families. The
authors also emphasize fluency's important role as the bridge that
connects word recognition with comprehension, contributing to
overall reading achievement and moving students to more meaningful
reading. Available April 16, 2018,
with pre-orders open now:
www.scholastic.com/themegabookoffluency
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room at http://mediaroom.scholastic.com.
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