Synopses & Reviews
The Journey to Meaning: Comprehension and Critique
Pam Allyn
The Journey to Meaning: Comprehension and Critique is one of the 4 Doors to Core Ready for the standards-serious student and teacher. It is a rich day-to-day, step-by-step guide for helping all students become Core Ready. Using the books in The Core Ready Program, readers see how to turn the standards into meaningful instruction and learning.
Enter through this door to in the Core Ready program to bring comprehension, critique and composition of literary texts to the classroom. This book specifically encompasses the strategies and skills all students need to comprehend, critique, and compose literary texts as outlined in the Common Core State Standards.
About the Program:
Core Ready is a dynamic series of books providing educators with critical tools for navigating the Common Core Standards effectively, fluidly, and successfully. In the pages of these books, readers see how to take complex concepts related to the standards and turn them into practical, specific, everyday instruction. The series is founded on the author’s 4 Doors to Core Ready, an easy to use yet strikingly brilliant way to access and organize all of the content within the standards:
Core Ready Lesson Sets for Grades 3-5: A Staircase to Standards Success:
- The Journey to Meaning: Comprehension and Critique
- The Shape of Story: Yesterday and Today
- The Road to Knowledge: Information and Research
- The Power to Persuade: Opinion and Argument
“Inspiring. Genuine. Talking from down in the trenches not from up on high. Brings the Common Core down from the rafters for a more manageable understanding.”
-- Wendy Fiore, Chester Elementary School (CT)
“I love what this book stands for academically. I love how easy it is to follow. I love how it contains everything from the pre-assessment of a skill until the final rubric. This book would allow me to spend more time teaching and less time planning/preparing. A home run for both me and my students.”
-- Elizabeth Smith, Madison Elementary School (VA)
Pam Allyn is an authority in the field of literacy education and the world’s expert in home and school literacy connections. As a renowned motivational speaker, expert consultant, author, teacher, and humanitarian advocating for children, she is transforming the way we think about literacy as a tool for communication and knowledge building.
Pam currently serves as the executive director of LitLife, a national literacy development organization providing research-based professional development for K-12 educators. She founded and leads LitWorld, a groundbreaking global literacy initiative which reaches children across the United States and in over 60 countries. Her methods for helping all students achieve success as literacy learners, including the most diverse learners, has brought her acclaim both in the United States and internationally.
Pam is the author of 11 books for educators and parents including the award-winning What To Read When: The Books and Stories To Read With Your Child-And All The Best Times To Read Them (Penguin Avery), Pam Allyn's Best Books for Boys (Scholastic) and Your Child’s Writing Life: How to Inspire Confidence, Creativity, and Skill at Every Age (Penguin Avery). Her work has been featured on Good Morning America, The Today Show, Oprah Radio, the Huffington Post, The New York Times and across the blogosphere.
Review
CORE READY LESSON SETS:
3-5 Books:
“[This is an] innovative text that effectively presents reading and writing as what they truly are: vital tools that our students need in order to live successful lives. It calls upon students to become active lifelong learners and challenges them to extend their reading and writing abilities. Its lessons give students the “hands on approach” that is needed to motivate them to become effective analysts and authors…. Most importantly, all literacy skills taught in this text are presented in the same way that our students will see them in their adult lives. This book will bring life into your reading and writing workshops. This is the text that all effective teachers have been asking and waiting for.”
“I love what this book stands for academically. I love how easy it is to follow. I love how it contains everything from the pre-assessment of a skill until the final rubric. This book would allow me to spend more time teaching and less time planning/preparing. A home run for both me and my students.”
-- Elizabeth Smith, Madison Elementary School (VA)
“Inspiring. Genuine. Talking from down in the trenches not from up on high. Brings the Common Core down from the rafters for a more manageable understanding.”
-- Wendy Fiore, Chester Elementary School (CT)
“I would strongly recommend it to colleagues and my administration because I feel it would be a resource series that would ultimately improve the way I teach literacy. I haven’t felt that way about a PD book since grad school.”
-- Katie Lynn Klaus, M.S.Ed
Synopsis
The Journey to Meaning: Comprehension and Critique is a a one-stop resource for turning the Common Core State Standards into meaningful instruction and learning a rich day-to-day, step-by-step guide on how to implement the Common Core State Standards for English language arts in the areas of comprehension and critique, the meaning building that is so essential for growing readers and writers, and how to ensure that all students are core ready. It is a book for teachers, administrative leaders, literacy coaches, ELL specialists, special educators, media specialists, reading teachers, content area teachers, professors and students of education. Included are strategies and skills for comprehending, critiquing, and composing literary text as outlined in the Common Core State Standards.
Visit http: //pdtoolkit.pearson.com to purchase access to the
PDToolkit for Pam Allyn's Core Ready Series. The PDToolkit access does not come with the print book.
PDToolkit for Pam Allyn's Core Ready Series is a supplemental online subscription-based resource that provides the tools that educators need to implement the Common Core Standards effectively, fluidly, and successfully. The PDToolkit, together with the texts, provides the tools you need to ensure a standards-aligned year of joyful, effective, research-based literacy curriculum.
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Synopsis
KEY BENEFIT An invaluable resource to help readers turn the Common Core Standards into meaningful instruction and learning in the areas of comprehension and critque in reading and composition in writing. Gives students and teachers a rich day-to-day, step-by-step guide on how to implement the Common Core Standards and how to ensure that all students are Core Ready.
KEY TOPICS Included are three rich and dynamic lesson sets with strategies and skills for comprehending, critiquing, and composing literary text as outlined in the Common Core Standards. Each lesson set has step by step reading and writing lessons, consisting of grade 3, Mirrors and Windows: Discovering and Developing Characters; grade 4, Changing the Lens: Determining Theme in Drama and Prose; and grade 5, What's the Point?: Discovering Meaning in Short Text, Poetry, and Song.
MARKET Teachers, administrative leaders, literacy coaches, ELL specialists, special educators, media specialists, reading teachers, content area teachers, professors and students of education.
Synopsis
The Journey to Meaning: Comprehension and Critique is a a one-stop resource for turning the Common Core State Standards into meaningful instruction and learning—a rich day-to-day, step-by-step guide on how to implement the Common Core State Standards for English language arts in the areas of comprehension and critique, the meaning building that is so essential for growing readers and writers, and how to ensure that all students are core ready. It is a book for teachers, administrative leaders, literacy coaches, ELL specialists, special educators, media specialists, reading teachers, content area teachers, professors and students of education. Included are strategies and skills for comprehending, critiquing, and composing literary text as outlined in the Common Core State Standards.
About the Author
Pam Allyn is an authority in the field of literacy education and an expert in home and school literacy connections. As a renowned motivational speaker, expert consultant, author, teacher, and humanitarian for children, she is transforming the way we think about literacy as a tool for communication and knowledge building. She is the executive director of LitLife, a national literacy development organization providing research-based professional development for K-12 educators. She founded and leads LitWorld, a groundbreaking global literacy initiative reaching children across the United States and in over 60 countries. Her methods for helping all students achieve as literacy learners, including the most diverse learners, has brought her acclaim both in the United States and internationally.
Pam is the author of 11 books for educators and parents including the award-winning What To Read When: The Books and Stories To Read With Your Child-And All The Best Times To Read Them (Penguin Avery), Pam Allyn's Best Books for Boys (Scholastic) and Your Child’s Writing Life: How to Inspire Confidence, Creativity, and Skill at Every Age (Penguin Avery). Her work has been featured on Good Morning America, The Today Show, Oprah Radio, the Huffington Post, the New York Times and across the blogosphere.
Table of Contents
Grade 3
Mirrors and Windows: Exploring Characters in Reading and Writing
Grade 4
Point of View: Drama and Prose
Grade 5
“What’s the Point?”: Theme in Short Text, Poetry, and Song