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Literary conversations don’t just enrich kids days; they offer young people gifts that keep on giving: the ability to take risks, exercise creativity, build empathy, and develop the ability to negotiate.\"   —from the foreword by Harvey \"Smokey\" Daniels      When you get right down to it, literacy comes down to this: read, talk, write. But as every teacher knows, it can be hard for students to see and use these three moves in concert—until now. In Read, Talk, Write, Laura Robb lays out the classroom structures that create the time and space for students to have productive talk and written discourse about texts. 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This book will be your guide as you support middle grade students who are reading two or more years below grade level. The lessons enlarge students’ vocabulary and background knowledge and engage them in meaningful discussions and writing about their reading. As students’ reading skill and desire to read increases, you’ll watch them complete more independent reading and ramp up their reading volume—the practice they need to improve!    Guided Practice for Reading Growth provides all you need to get started. Laura Robb and poet David L. Harrison have collaborated to design twenty-four powerful reading lessons using original poems and short texts that interest your students and encourage them to think deeply. The opening chapters offer background knowledge for the lessons and teaching tips, then the bulk of this book consists of lessons—with full texts and suggested videos provided. Guided practice lessons are the instructional piece that can move developing readers forward by building their self-confidence and the reading expertise needed to read to learn and for pleasure.    This unique book shows you how to:    ·         Build students’ background knowledge by watching and discussing videos.    ·         Use the poems to improve reading and to improve fluency through practice and performance.    ·         Invite students to write about their reading and increase comprehension and recall.    ·         Ask partners to discuss before, during, and after reading as meaningful talk enlarges students’ analytical thinking and understanding.    ·         Design your own lessons for students with extra texts by David L. Harrison in the appendix.    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Student-led discussions allow students to practice teamwork, critical thinking, clarifying ideas and communicating them to peers. They become active listeners, refine and improve their use of language, and develop higher order analysis, synthesis, and inference skills.   This On-Your-Feet Guide will help teachers:   ·        Create a structure for effective student-led conversations   ·        Focus on specific strategies that increase engagement and participation   ·        Generate essential questions that lead to deeper discussions   ·        Deliver prompts for keeping discussions moving forward   ·        Trouble-shoot and scaffold learners through specific conversational \"tricky spots\"   Use this on-your-feet guide to coach your students toward meaningful discussions that enhance literacy learning and increase engagement.        On-Your-Feet Guides (OYFGs) provide you with the ultimate \"cheat sheet\" to implement effective change in your classroom while in the moment of teaching. 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The answer: Word knowledge.     Our students can’t understand texts without knowing what words mean. It’s that simple. Meanwhile, in our rush toward complex texts, somehow we forget to put a new systematic vocabulary plan in place. In Vocabulary Is Comprehension, Laura Robb provides the instructional plan. And just wait until you see the results!    Laura’s plan takes just 10 to 15 minutes, and much of it is spent in partner and independent work so this is no \"add on\" to squeeze in. Even better, all materials are included.  Each lesson features a student reproducible along with 50+ pieces of short fiction, nonfiction, and poetry—or, if you prefer, use your own text.    Here’s how the plan works:      Day 1: You read aloud the short text and students discuss the selected words in their context. Students work in pairs, rereading the text to understand words and phrases, and then share understandings as a class.  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