Why has comprehension instruction become so complex? Sharon Taberski cuts through the pressurized, strategy-overloaded, fluency-crazed atmosphere surrounding reading instruction to lay out the reading and writing workshop practices that are most effective in developing readers in the primary grades. She shares the daily how-tos needed to sustain a literacy block that engages children in authentic reading and writing practices including dozens of effective practices that illustrate amazing ways to organize instructional and independent reading for kids including: <ul>
<li>
letter and sound searches that improve students' word accuracy and fluency </li> <li>
companion books bags that develop their confidence and comprehension </li> <li>
strategy sheets that make children's thinking about text concrete </li> <li>a Putting Our Strategies to Work Board that enables students to reflect on and discuss the meta-cognitive strategies they're using </li> <li>
Idea Books and Ta-da Publishing Books that help children get inside the reading and writing process and see how each feeds the other.</li> </ul>
Two Options for dynamic DVD-based staff development: <ul>
<li>
for your workshop or PLC, the Lessons from the Ground Up DVD features 105-minutes of video clips of Sharon in the classroom, modeling effective ways to develop comprehension plus a 64-page facilitator's guide supports the DVD, lesson by lesson. </li> <li>It's All About Comprehension is a long-term staff development initiative with 3 DVDs (7 hours) of whole-class, small-group, and one-on-one instruction from Sharon.</li> </ul>

Comprehension from the Ground Up: Simplified, Sensible Instruction for the K-3 Reading Workshop

Business & Money

Taberski, Sharon

Education & Reference

Heinemann

Many school districts mistakenly equate strategy instruction with comprehension instruction. They focus too early and too much on the metacognitive strategies, often at the exclusion of other critical aspects of literacy. My goal here is to simplify the way we teach reading and make it more effective Introducing a simple, effective, and integrated approach to teaching comprehension from the renowned reading instruction expert and author Sharon Taberski.
Helping children acquire cognitive strategies is only one part of top-notch reading instruction. And on her staff development DVDIt's ALL About Comprehension, Sharon Taberski shares her latest thinking on how to re-envision comprehension instruction.
Taberski (author of On Solid Ground and Comprehension from the Ground Up) guides students in whole-class, small-group, and one-on-one settings, clearly modeling highly effective ways to develop comprehension throughout the literacy block. She shows how to provide explicit support through five key strands: 
<ul>
<li>Accurate Fluent Reading </li>
<li>Background Knowledge </li>
<li>Oral Language and Vocabulary </li>
<li>Reading-Writing Connections </li>
<li>Repertoire of Strategies </li>
</ul>
For each strand, It's ALL About Comprehension includes three sections that can be used with any or all of the other strands over the course of staff-development sessions:
<ol>
<li>Overview explains how a particular strand relates to comprehension and video snippets demonstrate how a teacher can call upon it.</li>
<li>Featured Conference shows Sharon working directly with a child, using the strand to help the child become a better reader</li>
<li>Lessons in Action presents footage of Sharon leading several strand-related lessons and conferences to create a larger instructional framework.</li>
</ol>
In addition, the 152-page Facilitator's Comprehensive Guide provides tools for delivering effective staff development sessions. It includes pacing calendars for both shorter and longer term PD, session-planning sheets, recommended readings, and helpful reproducibles such as viewing/reflection sheets, graphics to help teachers plan lessons, action sheets to do with colleagues, and take-away explanations of key concepts and ideas shown on the DVD.
These videos document Sharon 's ongoing work in the classrooms of masterful teachers Deirdre Cerulli and Millie Velazquez and provide examples of authentic teacher-student interactions that viewers can adapt for their teaching. Let Sharon Taberski share the experience and joy that's made her one of the field's most treasured voices on early reading instruction. Use It's ALL About Comprehension to create an outstanding, sustained, multi-session professional development initiative

It's All About Comprehension: Teaching K-3 Readers from the Ground Up

Education & Teaching

Kurstedt, Rosanne

Schools & Teaching

"If you're a teacher trying to incorporate RTI into your day-to-day classroom practices, but you don't quite know how to manage it, then this book will be a cherished, well-guarded resource you'll want to chain to your desk." -Sharon Taberski How do I keep the rest of the class engaged while I teach small groups? "In the course of implementing RTI, teachers invariably search for ways to promote literacy learning and actively engage students in rich teacher-supported, peer-supported, and independent experiences. They need easy-to-adapt, open-ended options that will support and extend learning in any setting or context." -Mary Howard In her first book, RTI from All Sides, Mary Howard alerted teachers to the merits and potential missteps of Response to Intervention. In this follow-up guide, Mary provides teachers with the flexible literacy activities they need to move ahead with RTI and implement effective differentiated instruction in a variety of settings-including whole-group, guided practice, small-group, partner work, and independent learning. Through these instructional and reinforcement activities teachers gain the freedom to work with small groups of students and the confidence that all their students are on-task with meaningful, high-level work. "We can't warehouse students with decontextualized worksheets that promote passive learning and waste valuable time," Mary explains. &amp;qhot;I developed response forms as a vehicle for thinking using teacher modeling, partner work, and collaboration that revolves around rich dialogue. These concrete tools are deeply rooted in research-based reading, writing, and discussion practices that serve as a springboard for learning." Each form and assessment sheet is carefully designed to cultivate daily rituals that introduce and support new learning while creating opportunities to promote student independence, encourage personal accountability, build long-term word knowledge, and make reading more purposeful and thoughtful. While ideal for tier 1 classroom instruction, these forms can be easily adjusted for tiers 2 and 3 when more intensity and teacher support is needed. Building on her long-held belief that the key to RTI success is knowledgeable and empowered teachers, Mary Howard's Moving Forward with RTI is designed to help you manage your class using a variety of interactive teaching and learning tools within and beyond the literacy block. The forms in Moving Forward with RTI include: <ul>
<li>Daily Choice Folder </li> <li>Golden Book Basket Response</li> <li>Student Anchor Chart </li> <li>Personal Pondering Pad </li> <li>Focus Cards </li> <li>Summary Preview </li> <li>Dictionary Redefinition </li> <li>Adopt-a-Word </li> <li>"Living" Vocabulary </li> <li>Stoplight Words </li> <li>Five-by-Five Partner Reading </li> <li>My Sharing Bookmark </li> <li>Vocabulary Jigsaw</li> </ul> ...and many more "kid-tested" resources to fill your RTI instructional toolbox.

Moving Forward with RTI: Reading and Writing Activities for Every Instructional Setting and Tier: Small-G roup Instruction, In

HOWARD, Mary

Boynton/Cook

In this era of YouTube and quick-clock information gathering, novice and veteran teachers benefit from succinct, visual 'show me to teach me' professional development. To answer this need, I developed Lessons from the Ground Up. Sharon Taberski With the same clarity and accessibility as the classic On Solid Ground and Comprehension from the Ground Up, Sharon Taberski shares her latest thinking on how to use a variety of reading, writing, and talking experiences to help young students grow to be fluent readers. 105-minutes of succinct video clips of whole-class lessons, small-group instruction, and one-on-one conferences help teachers see that improving student's comprehension happens in the course of excellent reading and writing instruction and that strategy instruction should play a supporting role-not a starring role-in children's reading development. To help facilitate staff-development sessions, the 64-page facilitator's guide contains: <ul>
<li>
Session Plans that provide an organizing structure for your work with teachers divided into three parts: Access Knowledge, Develop Knowledge, and Synthesize Knowledge. </li> <li>
Strand Overview handouts highlight key points of the strand and are more detailed than video overviews. </li> <li>
Lesson in Action handouts provide a brief description of the lesson, the lesson focus, and highlight key student reading behaviors and teaching strategies. </li> <li>
Noticing, Thinking, and Wondering handouts focus teachers' video-viewing experience.</li> </ul>

Lessons from the Ground Up (DVD): Cultivating Comprehension in K-3 Readers

Simpler, more effective K-3 comprehension instruction for your preservice teachers  College edition includes:  copy of Comprehension from the Ground Up including CD-ROM of 32 reproducibles and study guide Student's Guide (40pp) six month's access to 120 minutes of classroom instructional video PDF of Instructor's Guide (19pp)  Sharon Taberski shares the how-tos needed to sustain a literacy block that engages children in authentic reading and writing practices including:  dozens of activities and foundational practices grade-appropriate schedules and favorite book lists to fill the school day with rich, engaging literary practices management ideas and sample lessons to teach K-3 reading in a simplified, streamlined way innovative tips and suggestions from a master teacher.

Comprehension from the Ground Up College Edition: Simplified, Sensible Instruction for the K-3 Reading Workshop

Why has comprehension instruction become so complex? Sharon Taberski cuts through the pressurized, strategy-overloaded, fluency-crazed atmosphere surrounding reading instruction to lay out the reading and writing workshop practices that are most effective in developing readers in the primary grades. She shares the daily how-tos needed to sustain a literacy block that engages children in authentic reading and writing practices including dozens of effective practices that illustrate amazing ways to organize instructional and independent reading for kids including: <ul>
<li>
letter and sound searches that improve students' word accuracy and fluency</li> <li>
companion books bags that develop their confidence and comprehension</li> <li>
strategy sheets that make children's thinking about text concrete</li> <li>a Putting Our Strategies to Work Board that enables students to reflect on and discuss the meta-cognitive strategies they're using</li> <li>
Idea Books and Ta-da Publishing Books that help children get inside the reading and writing process and see how each feeds the other.</li> </ul>
Two Options for dynamic DVD-based staff development: <ul>
<li>
for your workshop or PLC, the Lessons from the Ground Up DVD features 105-minutes of video clips of Sharon in the classroom, modeling effective ways to develop comprehension plus a 64-page facilitator's guide supports the DVD, lesson by lesson. </li> <li>It's All About Comprehension is a long-term staff development initiative with 3 DVDs (7 hours) of whole-class, small-group, and one-on-one instruction from Sharon.</li> </ul>

Morning, Noon, and Night: Poems to Fill Your Day

A selection of poems about the activities in a child's day, written by poets including Myra Cohn Livingston, Jeff Moss, Langston Hughes, and Charlotte Zolotow

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

Mondo Pub.

Presents information about the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitat of various kinds of penguins, as written by a first grade teacher and students.

Penguins Are Waterbirds

James, Sylvia

Animals

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Taberski, Sharon. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Taberski, Sharon

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Taberski, Sharon. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Comprehension from the Ground Up: Simplified, Sensible Instruction for the K-3 Reading Workshop

It's All About Comprehension: Teaching K-3 Readers from the Ground Up

Moving Forward with RTI: Reading and Writing Activities for Every Instructional Setting and Tier: Small-G roup Instruction, In

Lessons from the Ground Up (DVD): Cultivating Comprehension in K-3 Readers

Comprehension from the Ground Up College Edition: Simplified, Sensible Instruction for the K-3 Reading Workshop

Comprehension from the Ground Up: Simplified, Sensible Instruction for the K-3 Reading Workshop

Morning, Noon, and Night: Poems to Fill Your Day

Penguins Are Waterbirds