What's new at Literacy Builders?
With last week’s post, An Epidemic of Poor Comprehension, we began a blog series that investigates why students seem able to have grand conversations but do less than grand when it comes to standardized tests. In this week’s post, The Importance of Why do You Think That, Kim shares some important discoveries about the way in which students interpret test questions through the simple act of asking “why”?
JUST ADDED TO THE STORE!
Yearly Memberships to the Literacy Builders store are now available. For just $49.00, you are free to download all digital files for one year! And if you purchase between now and June 30, 2012, your membership won't expire until August 30th! Check out our Annual Membership page today!FREE FOR NOW:
Right now we are offering :
Stepping Up Our Thinking With Post-its
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At Literacy Builders, our “shelves” are stock-piled with all kinds of lessons designed to support you as you work to implement high quality reading and writing instruction. We want you to browse our offerings often for those lessons that meet your most immediate needs in teaching literacy. However, we know that paying for everything you want can be a drag so that is why we are rolling out our Free for Now program!
Here’s how it works:
Throughout the course of each month, we will feature no fewer than four different items on Free for Now. Sometimes we will offer something different five days in a row, sometimes we may only change it once a week. Sometimes we will offer a single lesson plan, sometimes, we will offer our bestselling E-Paks that contain 15 or more lessons! Sometimes the items will stay up for an hour or two, sometimes the items will stay up for a week, and some items will always be available.
How do you make sure you get the freebies you want?
Stay in touch! Every time we post something new to our store, we will place updates on our Facebook page and our website homepage. Check back often and never miss the things that interest you most!
Check out the review of our latest reads:
Time for teaching is tight and the thing that we, as teachers, are always grappling with is which aspects of our teaching to keep and which ones we can forgo. Is conversation one that we can forgo? In his newest book Opening Minds Using Language to Change Lives, Peter Johnston makes a compelling argument about the importance of conversation not only amongst children but also between teachers and students. If you enjoy “intellectual smoothies” you will like Johnston’s newest installment that crosses from literacy into educational psychology and is the most convincing argument for “dialogic instruction” that we have seen yet! Check out the review on our Professional Book Review Page!
Our latest read, Igniting a Passion for Reading answers all of those questions that we ask about what to do about the students in our classrooms that can read but won’t. Be sure to stop by our Professional Review Page and check out our full review of Igniting A Passion for Reading. 
Are you ready to take your understanding of what children need in order to become more proficient readers to the next level? Then Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey’s Background Knowledge: The Missing Piece of the Comprehension Puzzle might be the book you are looking for. For further insight, be sure to visit our professional review page!
