Text Savvy: Using a Shared Reading Framework to Build Comprehension, Grades 3-6

by Sarah Daunis

What strikes me about this wonderful book is that the authors not only tell us what they did in their classrooms, they make sure that we know how to do what they did. At the end of this book, you will know exactly why weekly shared reading works and how to do it in your classroom. -Janet Angelillo Author of Writing About Reading If only upper-elementary teachers had a tool like shared reading that supports the comprehension work their students do in reading workshop and read-aloud-one that helps children transition from teacher-led instruction to independent work. In fact, they do, because with minimal adjustments shared reading can be just as effective in grades 3-6 as it is in the primary grades. Text Savvy shows you how to make it work in your classroom. Text Savvy helps you implement a consistent, manageable, shared reading framework with the sophistication and wider variety of entry points that upper-elementary students need. Sarah Daunis and Maria Cassiani Iams present a five-day shared reading structure-called weekly shared reading-that engages students' foundational reading skills and helps them build on what they've learned. Best of all, weekly shared reading is an ideal approach to studying genres as well as an opportunity for consistently supporting reading skills across the content areas. With weekly shared reading, Text Savvy introduces you to a powerful teaching and learning tool that can change how you approach many aspects of your teaching. Let Daunis and Iams show you how weekly shared reading Present students smart, structured, and scaffolded opportunities to delve deeply into texts. Read Text Savvy , use weekly shared reading, and reinforce the strategies and skills that you teach in other aspects of your reading curriculum. Then watch as your students improve their use of reading strategies and develop the independence they need to grow as readers.

Genres: Education, Teaching

144 pages, Paperback

First published July 3, 2007

Reviews

[Shannon · Rating 5 out of 5]

I want Sarah Daunis to be my teacher. Reading the vignettes and pieces of children's work really put me in the classroom. Sarah and Maria's voices really come through. As I grew to expand my thinking from "Poem of the week" to Shared Reading that includes many genres, my excitement for using these ideas and strategies in the classroom and even extending it to reading art and music grew as well.

[Meghan Arthur · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a fabulous read - clear, concise and easy to implement. Weekly shared reading provides an excellent way for a reading community to develop shared understanding. Teachers can explicitly model the strategies students need to use to develop deep understanding. It is also easy to integrate curriculum using this strategy. Additionally, the skills learned through weekly shared reading will provide students support in taking high stakes tests.

[jcad]

I am really looking forward to reading this new text by two brilliant young leaders in their field. I hope to learn about how using shared texts helps students them to become both more confident readers, and more inquisitive, stronger students overall.

[Marsha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book overall...recommended from TLN. I wish there was more for middle school in this book. But I like the scheduling and methodical way it goes about thinking about treating text in the classroom.

[Julie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book. I have been learning more and more about teaching in the upper grades, 3-5, and I thought it was a very practical and useful. I am hoping that I can team teach with another upper grade teacher this fall that would like to put this in place.

[Jen]

Having learned from the authors and watched their incredible teaching, I'm not even going on a whim when I say the book will be five stars.

[Daniel · Rating 5 out of 5]

a friend said this one is good

[Julie Gardner · Rating 5 out of 5]

Concise, practical, and engaging/inspiring, with SO many possible applications.