Product Description: Every teacher wants and expects his or her students to be reading increasingly complex texts, yet sometimes the gap between our expectations and our students abilities seems wide and deep. It s tempting to look at that gap and step in to fill it for them, but then we d be doing most of the 'heavy lifting' the understanding, analysis, and interpretation that our students should be learning for themselves...read more

Product Description: Drawing on their own lives as readers and writers and years of experience working in classrooms as coaches, staff developers, and consultants, Dorothy Barnhouse and Vicki Vinton offer practical tips for meeting today's rigorous standards while reminding us of the deeper, enduring purposes and process of reading...read more