Full Description
"Merges research-based Retrospective Miscue Analysis with adapted Socratic Circle discussions, thus empowering all elementary readers to collaboratively identify and verbalize reading strategies, individually experience ownership and control as readers, and effectively build both literacy and language confidence and competence within a united classroom community."
—Marjorie R. Hancock, Professor Emerita of Elementary Education
Kansas State University
Help your students learn from each other and become skillful, confident readers!
How can teachers ensure that each child becomes a better reader? Building Classroom Reading Communities presents a successful approach for motivating students as individual readers while encouraging peer-to-peer learning. By showing how to use Retrospective Miscue Analysis (RMA) and Socratic Circles together, the authors help teachers create a sense of community in the classroom and promote achievement for every student.
The authors show how RMA—which develops students' comprehension and fluency by analyzing their mistakes as they read aloud—can be used to provide a window into each student's progress. The interactive discussion techniques used in Socratic Circles then extend learning in small groups and classwide. Teachers, literacy coaches, and others will find:
Assessment strategies and step-by-step guidance to implementing RMA and Socratic Circles
Insights on improving student skills in vocabulary, language structure, comprehension, and other key areas
Flexible, adaptable techniques for readers of all abilities
Numerous vignettes showing the use of RMA with Socratic Circles in the classroom
Discover a fresh approach to teaching literacy that is well-grounded in theory and practice!
Contents
List of Figures
Foreword by Dorothy Watson
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. Revaluing Readers: Introducing Retrospective Miscue Analysis (RMA)
2. RMA and the Theoretical Premises Involved
3. Connecting the Reading Process to Miscue Analysis
4. Marking and Coding Miscues for RMA: Simplifying the Process for Classroom Teachers
5. Organizing the Classroom for RMA
6. Assessing Reading Performance Through RMA
7. Informing Instruction Through RMA
8. RMA Conversations Focus the Classroom Literacy Curriculum
9. Socratic Circles and RMA
10. RMA and Proficient Readers
11. RMA and Developing Readers
12. RMA and Striving Readers
13. Concluding Thoughts and Follow-Up Interviews
Resources
Resource A: A Summary of the Research
Resource B: Example of a Marked Transcript
Resource C: Retelling Guide for Narrative Text
Resource D: Retelling Guide for Expository Text
Resource E: Practice Text for Miscue Marking
Resource F: Focusing on Miscues: For Student Reference
Resource G: Reporducible Simplified Miscue Organizer
Resource H: Burke Reading Interview
Resource I: Thinking About Reading: Reproducible Survey
Resource J: Socratic Circles Reproducible Tracking Sheet
References and Resources
References for Children's Literature
Index
