Talk about Understanding: Rethinking Classroom Talk to Enhance Comprehension - Paperback
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Talk About Understanding: Rethinking Classroom Talk to Enhance Comprehension
Reading education pioneer Ellin Oliver Keene demystifies comprehension instruction by describing what it can look like when readers comprehend deeply and what it can look like when teachers aim for this deep comprehension. This ground-breaking book is illustrated with video footage of Ellin modeling the reading instruction she describes. Here, you can watch Ellin use language and teaching moves that help students go beyond superficial reading comprehension to lasting understanding.
What's Inside
"Outcomes of Understanding" Markers provide clear descriptions of the behaviors present when children understand a text deeply, including practical ways to assess with and teach toward these outcomes. These markers give educators concrete benchmarks to guide their instruction and measure student progress.
"Talk About Understanding" Principles offer specific suggestions to modify teaching language and teaching interactions to deepen children's ability to comprehend. These principles transform how educators engage with students during reading instruction.
"From the Inside" Video Segments deliver authentic classroom footage of Ellin teaching lessons that illustrate use of the "Outcomes of Understanding" markers and "Talk About Understanding" principles from the book. Watch real-world application of these strategies in action.
For K-12 Reading Teachers and Literacy Coaches
This professional development resource addresses the critical question: Do your students understand their reading as deeply as they need to? Talk About Understanding provides the guiding principles, teaching suggestions, carefully described outcomes, and video support to help you teach your students how to comprehend, thoroughly and eagerly, the varied and complicated texts in the world around us.
Published by Heinemann Educational Books, this paperback combines theory with practice, offering educators a comprehensive framework for transforming classroom discourse and enhancing student comprehension strategies through intentional instructional practices.
Ellin Oliver Keene has been a classroom teacher, staff developer, non-profit director and adjunct professor of reading and writing. For sixteen years she directed staff development initiatives at the Denver-based Public Education & Business Coalition. She served as Deputy Director and Director of Literacy and Staff Development for the Cornerstone Project at the University of Pennsylvania for 4 years. Ellin works with schools and districts throughout the country and abroad. Her emphasis is long-term, school-based professional development and strategic planning for literacy learning. Ellin recently published The Literacy Studio: Redesigning the Workshop for Readers and Writers which is focused on an up-to-date conceptualization of Readers/Writers' workshop. She is the author of Engaging Children: Igniting the Drive for Deeper Learning (2018), is co-editor and co-author of The Teacher You Want to Be: Essays about Children, Learning, and Teaching (Heinemann, 2015); co-editor of the Not This, but That series (Heinemann, 2013 - 2018); author of Talk About Understanding: Rethinking Classroom Talk to Enhance Understanding (Heinemann, 2012), To Understand: New Horizons in Reading Comprehension (Heinemann, 2008), co-author of Comprehension Going Forward (Heinemann, 2011), co-author of Mosaic of Thought: The Power of Comprehension Strategy Instruction, 2nd edition (Heinemann, 2007, 1st edition, 1997) and author of Assessing Comprehension Thinking Strategies (Shell Educational Books, 2006) as well as numerous chapters for professional books and journals on the teaching of reading as well as education policy journals.
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