This highly practical collection of more than 130 strategies and 90 reproducibles is the perfect resource for any teacher attempting to evoke high-quality responses to literature.

Revisit, Reflect, Retell: Strategies for Improving Reading Comprehension

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Hoyt, Linda

Words, Language & Grammar

Heinemann

Visualizing during reading. Choosing just-right books. Using a table of contents. Peer editing. What do these strategies have in common? They're all tools of skilled readers and writers. And there's no better way to teach them than through minilessons. Minilessons provide strategic, focused instruction that children can put to immediate use. They capture interest without risking boredom. Linda Hoyt, author of the popular Revisit, Reflect, Retell, returns with the definitive guide to conducting minilessons across the literacy spectrum. Linda covers oral reading, guided reading, independent reading, and writing, providing more than 170 of her best minilessons for understanding individual words and whole texts, fiction and nonfiction. For each "Snapshot," Linda guides you through a process for gradually handing over responsibility to your students: 
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Demonstration: It's important to communicate the goal of the lesson to your students. Then, using one of the book's many reproducibles or your own text, model what you want them to do, explaining how you arrive at decisions. Make your thinking as transparent as possible so students will understand how to apply the strategy. </li>
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Guided and Independent Practice: Give students the chance to try the strategy, perhaps in pairs, small groups, or teams-with you as coach. From there, allow them to apply the strategy in their personal work as you assess them for what they're doing well and where they need support. </li>
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Reflection: Students must think about the strategy, to promote its long-term use. What did we learn? How did the strategy work for us? How else might we use it? Linda includes "Key Questions" within each Snapshot to get you and your students started. </li>
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Snapshots is essential for making the most of even the shortest moments of your day. It will help you broaden your students' vision so they can see the many functions of literacy and apply them in real and meaningful ways.

Snapshots: Literacy Minilessons Up Close

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Linda demonstrates how minilessons unfold in read aloud and guided reading, creating a model that can empower instruction across all curricular areas.

Snapshots: The Video

Grades K-8 Informational texts comprise the majority of printed material adults read. Yet children are underprepared for meeting the challenges posed by such texts. Linda Hoyt, Margaret Mooney, and Brenda Parkes offer some solutions. Exploring Informational Texts brings together numerous educators who provide a theoretically sound rationale and the practical wherewithal for using guided reading and writing as a primary strategy for navigating nonfiction. By assembling a wealth of material by many voices from many places, editors Hoyt, Mooney, and Parkes create a montage of ideas and suggestions. These practices and strategies for using informational texts get young readers and writers off to a good start and keep them going from kindergarten through middle school. Teachers will be intrigued by specific lesson ideas and questions, including: 
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<li>What do children need to know about informational texts? </li>
<li>Which features of informational texts are most critical to teach? </li>
<li>How might guided reading facilitate lessons in math or other subjects? </li>
<li>What does a reader do when a book has no table of contents? </li>
<li>What might a guided writing session with informational texts look like? </li>
<li>How can teachers link guided reading and guided writing lessons? </li>
<li>What is the role of oral reading in informational texts? </li> </ul>
Get an inside view of real teaching moments through vignettes and classroom examples. Find tools to empower your students tomorrow. Start using or extend your efforts with informational texts. Explore the possibilities in this book.

Exploring Informational Texts: From Theory to Practice

Parkes, Brenda

Mooney, Margaret E.

Feeding students a steady diet of fiction is all too common in the classroom. Yet informational literacy is critical to success in school and beyond. In Make It Real, Linda Hoyt provides a practical, classroom-friendly guide to unlocking the treasures of informational text. What's more, she demonstrates that reading and writing nonfiction can overcome the gender gap, allowing girls and boys to share interests in any subject from bugs and magnets to gardens and cake baking. Hoyt explains the use of a range of instructional strategies, including shared and guided reading and writing, to help students understand and use nonfiction material to answer questions about the world around them. She shows teachers how to make texts more attainable, scaffold vocabulary, and deal with content-specific words. Her simple suggestions help you get started and maintain your course: having students write about the visuals in their texts, infusing informational texts into guided reading, then using these texts to teach reading strategies. For further help, she includes throughout her book: 
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<li>teaching points</li> <li>reading strategies</li> <li>writing exercises</li> <li>checklists, plans, reading logs, and other forms</li> <li>vignettes from teachers across the country to serve as real-life models.</li> </ul> Do a better job linking up the curriculum. Teach skills and strategies applicable across content areas. See students' natural curiosities aroused. Take the tips from Make It Real, teach informational text, and hear comments like one from an enthusiastic first grader, "We're learning about the world and learning how to read, too!"

Make It Real: Strategies for Success with Informational Texts

Linda Hoyt unlocked the treasures of nonfiction in her practical, classroom-friendly guides Make It Real and Exploring Informational Texts. Now, in this three-video set, Hoyt and several colleagues demonstrate a wide array of ways to navigate this genre. They show you how to infuse informational texts into read alouds, guided reading, and guided writing. Most important, they offer easy and explicit strategies to help you to:  make informational texts inviting to all learners teach reading skills across content areas attend to the needs of English language learners, too.  Stimulate your students' curiosity about the world and energize their learning while building their language skills. Fit informational texts right into your daily teaching with ready-to-use simple suggestions. Learn by watching Linda Hoyt and colleagues.  Learning to Love Informational Texts Follow teachers as they weave nonfiction into every content area, model strategies that help improve reading comprehension and fluency, and make nonfiction more accessible to all learners. Guiding Readers and Writers with Informational Texts Observe guided reading lessons with informational texts, content-area studies infused with interactive writing, and guided writing blended into writing workshops and guided reading. Information Circles and Reciprocal Teaching Learn the specifics for conducting literature circles and reciprocal groups with nonfiction through various group-interaction and discussion strategies, including student-led teaching and teacher-modeled discussion.  Each video runs approximately 30 minutes. The set comes with a viewing guide to assist staff developers to train teachers, K-5.

Navigating Informational Texts: Easy and Explicit Strategies, K-5

Spotlight on Comprehension presents a tapestry of short, highly practical essays loaded with ready to use strategies for teaching reading comprehension and assessing understanding. Hoyt and an All-Star ensemble of contributors - including Ellin Keene, Tony Stead, Nell Duke, Franki Sibberson, Mike Opitz, David and Yvonne Freeman, Adria Klein, Mary Lee Hahn and Gretchen Owocki - cover the spectrum of comprehension instruction, addressing topics like: 
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<li>implementing the latest research on reading comprehension into your instruction</li> <li>improving children's comprehension strategies, especially questioning, inferring, and summarizing</li> <li>helping emerging, developing, and second language readers improve their comprehension</li> <li>using writing to build reading comprehension</li> <li>tackling a range of texts and genres across the curriculum, including standardized tests</li> <li>building a robust vocabulary</li> <li>organizing instruction around guided reading, the read aloud, and independent reading.</li> </ul> Best yet, Hoyt and her expert contributors include handy tools like checklists, sample lesson plans, book lists, strategy lists, assessment rubrics, and learning extensions that will help you take their ideas and use them in your own classroom immediately. Each chapter even includes Key Questions designed to stimulate personal reflection and support professional conversations or book-study groups. Read Spotlight on Comprehension - in short segments, or all at once; by yourself, or with friends and colleagues - and gather a wealth of strategies for building a literacy of thoughtfulness which will empower your students to get the most meaning from the varied texts of our world.

Spotlight on Comprehension: Building a Literacy of Thoughtfulness

With Snapshots the book, Linda Hoyt changed the way tens of thousands of teachers viewed and used literacy minilessons. Now, with Snapshots The DVD, Linda demonstrates how minilessons unfold in read aloud and guided reading, creating a model that can empower instruction across all curricular areas. Linda takes viewers inside the classroom so they can see for themselves how she conducts minilessons with children. Working in both whole and small groups, she moves from explicit demonstrations and think alouds into guided and independent practice. In the process, she demonstrates:   a complete lesson from start to finish  key components of a literacy minilesson, including length  a model of how minilessons can strengthen read alouds and guided reading  ideas for whole-class and small-group instruction.    Teachers and staff developers alike will benefit from this unique look at a master teacher and children at work.  Running time: 40 minutes

Snapshots The DVD

CD-ROM included with printable resources.

Guide to Interactive Read-Alouds Linking Standards, Fluency, and Comprehension

FirstHand

Read-aloud time is much treasured in most elementary classrooms as teachers share children's classics with their young readers. Linda Hoyt's Interactive Read-Alouds will help you make the most of read-aloud time by showing you creative ways to use popular children's literature to teach standards, fluency, and comprehension. Combining award-winning text and engaging conversations with reflective thinking, Linda's lessons will add drama to your literacy block and will teach your young readers strategies they will use across the curriculum.
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Interactive Read-Alouds (book of lessons) contains standards-based lessons designed around children's classics with Share the Reading strategies and Readers Theater Scripts.</li>
<li>The Teacher's Guide outlines the thinking behind Interactive Read-Alouds and describes how to apply the strategies in your classroom.</li>
<li>An Interactive Read-Alouds CD-ROM provides all of the shared text and Readers Theater Scripts in an easily accessible PDF format.</li>
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<li>Each lesson's concise Lesson Plan models an interactive read-aloud followed by an end of storyreflection and strategies for sharing, extending, and assessing the learning. Plus, a test-style assessment option familiarizes students with the type of literature analysis required on standardized tests.</li>
<li>A regular Share the Reading feature provides a shared text to reinforce the lesson's teaching in a type treatment that is easy to read and in a reproducible format that is easy to photocopy.</li>
<li>Every lesson includes a Readers Theater Script that introduces drama into a reading curriculum in a way that allows students of varying reading abilities to interact with different types of text and each other.</li>
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Interactive Read-Alouds, Grades K-1: Linking Standards, Fluency, and Comprehension

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