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“Well, that was a great minilesson–now what?” For every teacher who has uttered those words, this book is for you. In What Do I Teach Readers Tomorrow? Nonfiction, educators Gravity Goldberg and Renee Houser take the guesswork out of determining students’ needs with a moment-to-moment guide focused on the decisions that make the biggest impact on readers’ skill development. With the authors’ guidance, you put their next-step resources into action, including • Tips for what to look for and listen for in reading notebook entries and conversations about books • Reproducible Clipboard Notes pages that help you decide whether to reinforce a current type of thinking, teach a new type of thinking, or apply a current type of thinking to a new text • More than 30 lessons on synthesizing information and understanding perspectives, writing about reading, organizing thinking, and more • Reading notebook entries and sample classroom conversations to use as benchmarks • Strategies for deepening the three most prevalent types of thinking students do when synthesizing: Right-Now Thinking (on the page), Over-Time Thinking (across a picture book, a chapter, or longer text), or Refining Thinking (nuanced connections across text and life concepts) • Strategies for deepening the three most useful types of thinking–feelings, frames, and opinions–when considering perspectives • Online video clips of Renee and Gravity teaching, conferring, and “thin slicing” what nonfiction readers need next With What Do I Teach Readers Tomorrow? Nonfiction, you learn to trust your instincts and trust your students to provide you with information about the next steps that make the most sense for them. Teaching students to engage with and understand nonfiction becomes personal, purposeful, and a homegrown process that you can replicate from year to year and student to student.
Each Classroom Moment is an Instructional Decision
Each Classroom Moment is an Instructional Decision

© Andrew Levine
“The power of knowing, in that first two seconds, is not a gift given magically to a fortunate few. It is an ability that we can all cultivate for ourselves.”
Maria paused in the front of the classroom and observed her students reading. Each student held a nonfiction book and was opening the pages and beginning to read. Some students had sticky notes out and were marking places, some students were holding photographs up close and looking at the tiny details, and some were scanning the table of contents and thinking about where to start reading. As in most classrooms, some of Maria’s students were on grade level, ...
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