num_pages: 176
description: In their hit books Notice and Note and Reading Nonfiction Kylene Beers and Bob Probst showed teachers how to help students become close readers. Now in Disrupting Thinking they take teachers a step further and discuss an on-going problem: lack of engagement with reading. They explain that all too often no matter the strategy shared with students too many students remain disengaged and reluctant readers. The problem they suggest is that we have misrepresented to students why we read and how we ought to approach any text - fiction or nonfiction.With their hallmark humor and their appreciated practicality Beers and Probst present a vision of what reading and what education across all the grades could be. Hands-on-strategies make it applicable right away for the classroom teacher and turn-and-talk discussion points make it a guidebook for school-wide conversations. In particular they share new strategies and ideas for helping classroom teachers:--Create engagement and relevance--Encourage responsive and responsible reading--Deepen comprehension--Develop lifelong reading habitsWe think its time we finally do become a nation of readers and we know its time students learn to tell fake news from real news. Its time we help students understand why how they read is so important explain Beers and Probst. Disrupting Thinking is at its heart an exploration of how we help students become the reader who does so much more than decode recall or choose the correct answer from a multiple-choice list. This book shows us how to help students become the critical thinkers our nation needs them to be.
language: English
title: Disrupting Thinking: Why How We Read Matters
publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources