An inspiring book to help teachers shift their beliefs and "stretch" their thinking around reading comprehension, literacy instruction, and content-area learning. Using the key concepts and strategies introduced in her...book, Reading Power, Adrienne Gear shows teachers practical ways to create a "culture of thinking" that can be integrated into all areas of learning. Using knowledge-rich texts as tools, Adrienne shares how read-alouds can be used in content areas to support literacy skills and build knowledge. This timely book offers classroom-tested lessons and anchor books to create a content-rich learning environment that helps strengthen student learning and knowledge-building. -- Provided by publisher

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Cover -- Title -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Teaching Powerful Thinking -- 1. Why Teach Powerful Thinking? -- Making Thinking Stick -- 2. Starting with Powerful Reading -- Reading Proficiency -- Reading Engagement -- Holistic Reading Check-In -- Reading Power -- Launching Reading Power in Your Classroom -- Reading Power Strategy Top Tips -- 3. Expanding to Powerful Thinking -- Creating a Culture of Thinking in Y our Classroom -- Lesson: Let's Talk About Thinking -- Tools for Teaching Thinking -- Thinking Anchor Books -- Thinking Prompts -- Modeling Your Thinking -- 4. Doing a Teaching Reset -- Recent Reading Comprehension Research -- Constrained and Unconstrained Reading Skills -- Language Comprehension -- Knowledge Building -- Reflecting on the Research -- Putting Research into Action -- A Literacy-Rich Curriculum -- Content-Rich Texts -- Content-Rich Text Sets -- Content-Rich Interactive Read-Alouds -- Literacy-Rich Discussions -- 5. Nudging Learning -- Pre-Reading Lessons -- Lesson: What Is Nonfiction? -- Lesson: Introducing Nonfiction Text Structures -- Before-Reading Lessons -- Lesson: One Word -- Lesson: Book Bites -- During-Reading Lessons -- Lesson: Knew-New -- Lesson: Fact-React -- After-Reading Lessons -- Lesson: Gisting -- Lesson: What? So What? Now What? -- Powerful Thinking Across the Curriculum -- 6. Thinking in Science -- Wonder Walk -- Lesson: Taking a Wonder Walk -- Lesson: Introducing the Scientific Method -- Scientist Biographies -- 7. Thinking in Social Studies -- Reading and Thinking Across Canada -- Introductory Lesson: One Word -- Reading and Thinking Across Canada Weekly Lessons -- Lesson: Concluding the Unit -- Thinking About Global Justice -- Lesson: Global Justice -- Unit Lessons -- Exploring Community -- Lesson: Our Local Community -- Lesson: Being a Community Member. 8. Thinking in Math -- Lesson: Connecting Thinking Powers to Math Talk -- Lesson: Change My Thinking -- Lesson: The Knew-New in Math -- 9. Thinking in Art, Music, and Phys Ed -- Thinking in Art -- Lesson: Thinking Deeply About Art -- Thinking in Music -- Lesson: Thinking Deeply About Music -- Thinking in Phys Ed -- Lesson: Visualizing -- 10. Building Indigenous Knowledge in an Early Primary Classroom: A Unit in Action -- Final Thoughts -- Acknowledgments -- Professional Resources -- Index -- Blank Page.