Not, to argue, but if you order from Heinemann, they are saying January. I
ordered yesterday. deb
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Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 10:40 AM
To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org
Subject: [MOSAIC] Ellin's new book
Hey all you Mosaic of Thought fans out there! I want to announce to the
MOSAIC listserv (and a few other interested colleagues) that Ellin Keene's
latest
book is due out this spring and can be preordered on Amazon. It sounds
fantastic and I simply cannot wait! Ellin got us thinking about reading in a
whole new way and I think this one sounds like it will be equally
thought-provoking.
Here is the link:
To Understand: New Horizons in Reading Comprehension (Paperback)
by Ellin Oliver Keene
_www.amazon.com/Understand-New-Horizons-Reading-Comprehension/dp/0325003238/r
ef=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8s=booksqid=1201326987sr=8-4_
(http://www.amazon.com/Understand-New-Horizons-Reading-Comprehension/dp/0325003238/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8s=boo
ksqid=1201326987sr=8-4)
From Amazon.com:
“This is a work of incredible scope: adventurous, ingratiating,
challenging,genuinely groundbreaking, and gorgeously written. It will knock
the socks
off this profession.”
- Harvey Daniels
Author of Subjects Matter and Content-Area Writing
The renaissance in comprehension instruction launched by Mosaic of Thought
has led to changes in hundreds of thousands of classrooms, where teachers now
model reading strategies, and students probe meaning more deeply. But no book
in the field has satisfactorily answered the question: What does it really
mean to comprehend? In To Understand, Ellin Oliver Keene not only explores
this important question, but reveals what teachers can do to encourage all
students to engage in deep understanding far more consistently than before.
In discovering what's really behind comprehension, To Understand goes well
beyond comprehension strategy instruction. Keene identifies specific
Dimensions and Outcomes of Understanding - characteristics identified in
readers with
a highly developed ability to make sense of text - to help you rethink what
comprehension is. She demonstrates how to leverage the Dimensions and Outcomes
into relevant, provocative, memorable instruction.
To Understand proposes a model that incorporates all aspects of literacy
instruction - word learning and comprehension - and describes how teachers can
focus on what matters most in literacy content. Keene shows that when teachers
target the most essential content, they have the time to help every student
engage more deeply with texts and discover a passion for reading and
learning. The model is founded on four simple, but powerful concepts:
* Focus on what's important by teaching vital concepts in depth rather
than skimming over nonessential skills
* Use research-based teaching and learning strategies, including
proven-effective comprehension and language-based strategies, then taking them
further by showing students how the strategies lead them to a fuller
understand
of a text
* Teach the essential concepts over a long period of time so that
children have an opportunity to learn not only a comprehension strategy, but
to
explore where that strategy leads in their understanding
* Give students numerous opportunities to apply the concepts in a
variety of texts and contexts.
With To Understand in hand, you'll find new ways to draw out the innate
intellectual interest in every student and spark dramatic improvements in
literacy learning and comprehension, even among students who struggle. You'll
see
that by rethinking what it means to understand - by teaching children the
Outcomes and Dimensions of understanding - you can help students exceed
expectations while broadening your vision of their abilities, their capacity,
and their
energy for learning.
There's still more - much more - to learn about comprehension. Read To
Understand, join Ellin Oliver Keene, and discover that what's at the very core
of
comprehension can not only reinvigorate your teaching but take your students
to new, uncharted levels of learning.
Enjoy!
Jennifer Palmer
Mosaic Listserv Moderator
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