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Energize Research Reading and Writing: Fresh Strategies to Spark Interest, Develop Independence, and Meet Key Common Co re Standards, Grades
Sit down with Christopher Lehman as he shares the strategies he has used to make research reading and writing real and motivating for students. Chris draws on his experience with the Reading and Writing Project and as co-author of Pathways to the Common Core to help you tailor your instruction to your students' needs, get to the heart of the Common Core State Standards, and, most importantly, challenge your students to become driven, inquisitive thinkers who can meet the demands of school and life in the 21st century.
Energize Research Reading and Writing provides a menu of fresh, classroom-tested strategies for teaching research across all contents as well
Use this book as a complete research unit plan or as a source for targeted strategies. Energize Research Reading and Writing has all the tools you need to transform your students into engaged and independent researchers.
Energize Research Reading and Writing provides a menu of fresh, classroom-tested strategies for teaching research across all contents as well
Use this book as a complete research unit plan or as a source for targeted strategies. Energize Research Reading and Writing has all the tools you need to transform your students into engaged and independent researchers.
160 pages, Paperback
First published August 20, 2012
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December 11, 2012
Brilliant book on research in reading and writing (and the content areas). Addresses common core but, more importantly, more authentic ways to teach our students research skills. Highly recommend.
November 4, 2012
I felt as if I were sitting in Chris' classroom throughout this engaging and informative book. He makes both the strategies he employs as well as the pedagogy behind them explicit as he catalogues how he shows kids how to "teach" others about their research. Further, he reminds us that in order "to teach well is to see the great wide world of strategies and methods through the eyes of your students," (131) something this veteran teacher should have internalized by now. A must read.
July 15, 2015
Some wonderful ideas for research reading and writing.
July 18, 2015
Some great ideas! Loved the MS Twitter chat our district did focused on this book.
October 21, 2012
Excellent PD! Lehman lays out a long-overdue process for teaching student researchers.
February 11, 2015
Christopher Lehman wants to give teachers the tools to let students embrace research. So often the term "research paper" instills visions of tedium, apathy, and academic detachment. Students only do it because it is forced upon them by their teachers. But Lehman wants to change all that. He wrote this book as a toolkit for teachers to empower students with choice and curiosity in their own learning endeavors.
I particularly found the chapter on teaching students to write citations on their own to be the most concrete and useful. Some of the other chapters were a little more abstract and vague, but in general, the message of this book is clear: the desire of research should be to learn. Too often students aren't learning or don't want to learn from their research. We need to give them the tools to allow it to become a learning endeavor.
I particularly found the chapter on teaching students to write citations on their own to be the most concrete and useful. Some of the other chapters were a little more abstract and vague, but in general, the message of this book is clear: the desire of research should be to learn. Too often students aren't learning or don't want to learn from their research. We need to give them the tools to allow it to become a learning endeavor.
April 22, 2015
Good basic ideas for a teacher who does not have access to a librarian. I love the idea that students should be open to research topics. Too many times I see the student who does not know his topic well but yet he cannot seem to move away from researching the purple unicorn. The section on citation did not address the great digital tools like EasyBib that teachers have today to make teaching citation easier.
April 11, 2016
How to get your kids excited and confident about research in grades 4-8.
Lots of good advice in this book, as expected. Lehman co-wrote Pathways to the Common Core, which I also liked.
The main goal of this book is to get students to think about what they are reading and writing, make the structure of various texts transparent so they can use them as models, and talk students through the process-OFTEN and CONTINUOUSLY.
Full of good ideas to try in the library and classroom.
Lots of good advice in this book, as expected. Lehman co-wrote Pathways to the Common Core, which I also liked.
The main goal of this book is to get students to think about what they are reading and writing, make the structure of various texts transparent so they can use them as models, and talk students through the process-OFTEN and CONTINUOUSLY.
Full of good ideas to try in the library and classroom.
April 16, 2015
I like some ideas a lot: a change in stance from "showing what you know" to "teaching a reader something" seems very positive. Lots of practice writes, what the author calls "teaching-through-writing experiments." Great ideas for teaching citation: the why! Really, the book breaks down many of the aspects of research-based writing and provides good ideas for teaching them more effectively.
May 27, 2013
Lehman provides teachers with excellent suggestions for teaching students how to be researchers. I pulled out many valuable ideas to use with my students in the library. I wish he had mentioned collaborating with librarians a bit more. Teachers need to know that they aren't alone. School librarians are there to help them plan and co-teach research.
July 12, 2015
Must read for any teacher whose students have the opportunity to engage in research- practical, student-driven, and weaves in great info on the research expectations in our new content standards. As always, Chris lehman's narratives of his actual work with students are interesting and helpful. Meshes very nicely with the tcrwp Units of Study in writing.
April 4, 2013
Nice ideas on supporting research, note taking, writing, and annotating. I didn't find anything earth shattering, but the book was very readable. Will definitely use some of the ideas to teach research in the library.
October 15, 2014
Teachers who work with students as they research will really benefit from reading Chris Lehman's advice. I love the style of his writing, because the book reads as if he were having a conversation with me..and I could definitely relate to the situations he describes and learn from his suggestions.
January 28, 2013
Every classroom needs this book! Overflowing with ideas
April 25, 2013
Energized me. No, really!
June 19, 2013
Kicking myself for not reading this sooner. Excellent, thought provoking ideas on how to help students breathe life into research and informational writing.
June 26, 2013
Love it- going to buy a copy so I can reread and take my highlighter to it. It goes beyond the theoretical and the general to the practical application level and gives ideas for differentiation too.
August 7, 2013
I will definitely be using a number of these strategies with my students this school year! Such a fresh and more innovative approach to research instruction.
October 1, 2013
Excellent, practical advice for making this tough genre better...
December 31, 2013
Has me excited for my job at a time of year when it really hard to get excited about anything
July 22, 2015
Practical ideas for renovating my research instruction! Loved the differentiation charts!
December 16, 2015
I liked it at the beginning, but then it got too wordy.
February 4, 2017
Great ideas for making researching authentic and relevant... not just completing a project.
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