assess their performance and determine areas of strength and
explore how teachers can apply The New Art
improvement. Each chapter ends with guiding questions for
and Science of Teaching framework to teaching
curriculum design. This book will help all teachers address the
reading. This comprehensive book offers over one
learning outcomes for reading necessary for student success.
hundred detailed strategies for and examples of
K–12 teachers will:
implementation. Throughout the book, the authors address the following design areas within three
• Explore in depth over one hundred research-based reading-specific classroom strategies
• Gain reading-specific classroom strategies that foster
and (3) context.
specific student learning outcomes • Fine-tune their reading curriculum to ensure student success • Find tools, templates, and abundant examples to guide implementation • Reflect on their current practice, assess their performance, and measure their progress
1.
Within the category of feedback, teachers will learn reading-specific strategies for: • Providing and communicating clear learning goals • Using assessments
3. Within the category of context, teachers will learn reading-specific strategies for: • Engaging students • Implementing rules and procedures • Building relationships • Communicating high expectations • Developing expertise
A joint publication
“Very well written and easy to follow, this book is packed full of practical tools and resources for reading instruction, planning, and reflection that teachers can use immediately in their classrooms. Simms and Marzano do a brilliant job of connecting their reading-specific model of instruction with Marzano’s instructional framework that emphasizes feedback, content, and context.”
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2. Within the category of content, teachers will learn reading-specific strategies for: • Conducting direct instruction lessons • Conducting practicing and deepening lessons • Conducting knowledge application lessons • Conducting all types of lessons
READING
categories of teaching: (1) feedback, (2) content,
OF TEACHING
authors Julia A. Simms and Robert J. Marzano
SCIENCE
Each chapter includes self-rating scales teachers can use to
AND
In The New Art and Science of Teaching Reading,
ART
—Blair Perzentka
English Teacher, Marshall High School, Marshall, Wisconsin
THE NEW
“The New Art and Science of Teaching Reading helps teachers feel excited to teach students—not just to teach reading. Simms and Marzano share a multitude of instructional strategies that yield cognitively complex tasks for students and cultivate a mindset of continuous improvement not only in educators but in their students as well.”