Böcker av Adrienne Gear

An inspiring book to help teachers shift their beliefs and "stretch" their thinking around reading comprehension, literacy instruction, and content-area learning.

Adrienne Gear continues the journey of effective literacy instruction with a focus on poetry. Combining writing, reading, and oral language skills, this book will provide teachers with a wealth of engaging lessons to bring the power of poetry into their classrooms.

Uses thinking structures to deepen student writing. The book revolves around ""brain pockets"" to help students appreciate the qualities of different writing forms. Some powerful examples include memory pockets for personal narrative writing, fact pockets for nonfiction, and imagination pockets for story writing.

Over the last decade Reading Power has evolved into a recognized approach to comprehension instruction, and has been implemented across Canada, the US, UK, Sweden, and China. In this revised and expanded second edition of her popular book, Adrienne shares this new understanding and offers teachers new ideas, new lessons, and new anchor books to support the Reading Power lessons.

This practical and thoughtful resource is a follow up to the ground-breaking Reading Power books, which feature simple strategies for helping students focus on their "thinking" while they read. Using five thinking strategies - Connect, Question, Visualize, Infer, and Transform - young writers will learn how to engage their readers' thinking through their writing.