“This book is solid gold! For teachers looking for a resource to help them in implementing the Common Core Standards, it is exactly the right book at the right time. They will appreciate the classroom vignettes, rubrics, instructional routines, and practical ideas for deepening students’ response, text-based discussion, inquiry, and argumentation across narrative, expository, and new-media texts. I know of no other text that presents so many rich ideas and activities for developing critical readers ‘who read like detectives and write like reporters.’” —Terrell A. Young, Professor of Literacy Education, Washington State University, Richland, Washington “Fisher, Frey, and Lapp’s Teaching Students to Read Like Detectives moves our field forward to the next level where the impact and influence of the Common Core State Standards challenge teachers and students to interact with texts in deeper, more complex ways. Drawing upon textfocused conversations that extend critical thinking and communication, Fisher, Frey, and Lapp deliver new expectations for instruction and learning through three key avenues: theoretical background for professional growth, classroom examples for those inside instruction viewpoints, and practical models and routines for smooth implementation.” —Kathy Headley, Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, College of Health, Education, and Human Development, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina
Teaching Students to Read Like Detectives explores the important relationship between text, learner, and learning. Authors Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Diane Lapp offer comprehensive strategies to establish literacy in a discussion-based classroom where students read closely, think critically, and engage deeply with their own ideas. Using this thorough resource, all K–12 educators can prepare students to become the sophisticated readers, writers, and thinkers they need to be to achieve higher learning. The authors: • Investigate how educators can create inquiry-based, reflective classrooms • Provide student and teacher dialogues, teacher modeling, and graphic organizers • Offer sample assignments, organizational routines, and instructional strategies • Illustrate how to build an understanding of literary and expository texts • Suggest techniques for productive and safe classroom discussions
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