Robin Fogarty

As a teacher librarian, are you a member of the literacy leadership team for the school? If not, get involved, and if there is no leadership team, urge administrators to form one. In such a professional learning community, the main topic of discussion will no doubt be reading skill and how to improve it. But, there shoul also be many discussions about reading widely and for pleasure. If you as a teacher librarian are unfamiliar with various strategies that help readers build skill and if others, for example, high school teachers, don’t consider themselves reading teachers, then the Fogarty book is a slim and easy way to learn simple and effective strategies. We liked this volume because it is brief, provides common tactics for building skill, and can be understood by non-reading specialists. For example, every time the professional learning community meets, one or several strategies from this book could be studied and applied in classes before the next meeting when a discussion and assessment could take place. The strategies mentioned and taught here can be used by the science teacher, the coach, the teacher librarian and anyone else by integrating the ideas into normal classroom activities without disrupting those activities. It’s worth a try. Highly recommended.… (más)