Disrupting Thinking by Beers, Kylene

Disrupting Thinking

Supported with student conversations, classroom scenarios, practical strategies, and turn-and-talk moments, teachers and administrators can use this...
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Author: Kylene Beers
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Disrupting Thinking by Beers, Kylene

Disrupting Thinking

$54.12

Disrupting Thinking

$54.12
Author: Kylene Beers
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Supported with student conversations, classroom scenarios, practical strategies, and turn-and-talk moments, teachers and administrators can use this book as a guide for changing the way they think about teaching students to become thoughtful, skillful, attentive, responsive readers.

Disrupting Thinking: Why How We Read Matters is a book for the entire faculty. Supported with student conversations, classroom scenarios, practical strategies, and turn-and-talk moments, teachers and administrators will use this book as a guide for changing the way they think about teaching kids to become the thoughtful, skillful, attentive, responsive readers we want them to be, our democracy needs them to be. Kylene Beers and Bob Probst help us understand engagement, relevance, and talk along with day-to-day concerns of choice reading, incommon reading, and leveled reading. Kylene and Bob push our thinking in this book as they take on the challenge of changing how it is we read.

Key Features

  • Provides classsroom vignettes, techniques and strategies to showcase change for entire faculty;
  • Reads like a workshop in a book. Every chapter ends with a Turn-and-Talk.
  • Deepens our understanding of reading and defines three kinds of readers: responsive, responsible, and emphatic.


Author: Kylene Beers,Robert E. Probst
Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources
Published: 03/31/2017
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.90h x 7.10w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781338132908
Audience: 05 - 17

About the Author
Kylene Beers is an award-winning educator and co-author, with Robert E. Probst, of Disrupting Thinking (Scholastic). She is a past-President of the National Council of Teachers of English, received an NCTE Leadership Award, held a reading research position in the Comer School Development Program at Yale University School of Medicine, and has most recently served as the Senior Reading Advisor to the Reading and Writing Project at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Robert E. Probst, Ed.D., is an author and consultant to schools nationally and internationally. He speaks to administrators and teachers on literacy improvement, particularly issues surrounding struggling readers and meeting standards. Bob is Professor Emeritus of English Education at Georgia State University and has served as a research fellow for Florida International University. He is co-author with Kylene Beers of Disrupting Thinking (Scholastic).

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