Table of Contents
A Note From the Authors 5
From Striving to Thriving: One Reader's Story Dav Pilkey 6
Introduction: The Best Intervention Is a Good Book 9
About Our Book 11
About the Framework: Trust, Teach, Transform 13
What's Inside Each Chapter 14
What We Know About Reading 17
Part I Trust
Chapter 1 Table the Labels 31
Chapter 2 Cultivate Curiosity 71
Chapter 3 Ensure Access to and Choice of Books 87
Chapter 4 Pump Up the Reading Volume 121
Part II Teach
Chapter 5 Book-Match Relentlessly 143
Chapter 6 Teach Thinking-Intensive Reading 167
Part III Transform
Chapter 7 Assess Readers in the Round 207
Chapter 8 Advocate Tirelessly 231
Closing Thought 252
Practices and Lessons 253
Chapter 1
Practice: Embracing Mistakes Through Story 254
Practice: Textual Lineage 256
Practice: Areas of Specialty: AOS 258
Lesson: Read, Synthesize Important Information, and Jot Down Thinking 260
Chapter 2
Practice: Wonder Walls, Wonder Books, and Wonder Boxes 262
Practice: Close Viewing 264
Lesson: Keeping a Wonder Book 266
Chapter 3
Practice: Weeding Your Classroom Library 268
Practice: Book-Talking 270
Practice: Celebrating New Arrivals and Highlighting Hidden Gems 272
Lesson: Choosing a Just-Right Book 274
Chapter 4
Practice: Conferring for Engagement: Reader to Reader, Heart to Heart 276
Lesson: What Is the Reading Zone? 278
Chapter 5
Practice: Going the Extra Mile to Put the Right Book in a Striving Reader's Hands 280
Lesson: Making a Reading Plan 282
Chapter 6
Practice: Source Sets 284
Practice: Striving Readers and Fluency Development 286
Lesson: Monitoring Comprehension: Following the Inner Conversation 288
Lesson: Using Fix-Up Strategies 290
Lesson: Surfacing the Big Ideas 293
Additional Materials for Striving Readers
Practice: Shared Reading 296
Practice: Write to Read 298
Practice: Invested Reading 300
Practice: Rime Magic for Word Solving 302
Acknowledgments 306
References 308
Index 314