Written in Calkins' graceful and passionate style, The Art of Teaching Reading serves as an eloquent and desperately needed reminder of what matters most in teaching. This long awaited text offers a compelling overview of the methods, insights and day-to-day classroom practices which have helped hundreds of teachers do more in the teaching of reading than most dreamt possible. This is the story of brilliant teachers whose children learn to read with eagerness and to talk and write in stunning ways about their reading.

• Provides countless real-life classroom examples, transcripts of actual classroom dialogues, practical tips and ideas, and research and theory to back them. Readers peer in to watch as students learn to decipher an unfamiliar word, choose a book at their own level, use post-its to mark passages they love, clarify a classmate's comment on a book, and wonder out loud about why an author chose to write something in a certain way. Pg.___

• Presents essential ongoing structures necessary for balanced literacy classrooms, such as independent reading, reading aloud, guided reading, book talks, and "word solving." Throughout the book, Calkins encourages teachers to personalize these structures in order to author their own unique reading curriculum (Section II). Pg.___

• Describes units of study in a reading curriculum, showing the journey of primary and upper grade reading classrooms across the year and helps teachers to plan inquiries in topics such as reading with stamina and comprehension meaning, talking and writing about books, and helping children become flexible and strategic word-solvers. (Section III). Pg.___

• Includes unique and exciting chapters on book clubs (Ch. 20), creating a balanced and leveled classroom library (Chs. 2, 7), supporting readers who struggle with meaning, print, or fluency (Ch. 9), and helping students read nonfiction texts (Ch. 21). Pg.___

• Focuses on assessment as an ongoing part of reading instruction, including a full chapter on "Bringing Reading Assessment into the Very Real World of Classroom Teaching" (Ch. 8). Pg.___

• Contains an unprecedented final section about the qualities of good reading, focusing on elements of story (Ch. 22), interpretation of text (Ch. 23), writing about reading (Ch. 24), and personal response (Ch. 25). Pg.___

• Includes appendices on read-aloud books, magazines for kids and the principles for leveling a classroom library. Pg.___

SECTION I. BUILDING A PLACE FOR READING.

SECTION II. ONGOING STRUCTURES IN THE READING CURRICULUM.

SECTION III. UNITS OF STUDY IN A READING WORKSHOP.

SECTION IV. TEACHING THE QUALITIES OF GOOD READING.

Elementary Reading Methods (K-8)  [CORE TEXTS]   (Reading & Literacy)

Lucy Calkins is a Professor of Curriculum and Teaching at Teachers College, Columbia University, and an acclaimed speaker, with frequent keynote addresses at conferences across the country. She is also the author (or co-author) of numerous books, including the best-selling sister volume, The Art of Teaching Writing (Heinemann), Raising Lifelong Learners: A Parents' Guide (Perseus Books), and A Teacher's Guide to Standardized Reading Tests: Knowledge is Power (Heinemann).

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