Teaching Literacy in the Visible Learning Classroo

Love this book. The literacy teacher's bible!

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For my own practice with my students.

"Teaching Literacy in the Visible Learning Classroom, Grades 6-12 (Corwin Literacy)" by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, John Hattie, and Marisol Thayre is the second in this series that I've had the privilege to read. There's been enough time between the readings that I noticed things in this volume that I didn't notice in the first one that I read so it was great to go back and get more information from that previous volume so that was one unexpected benefit.The main benefit from this book is that the authors have a clear theme and back up that theme throughout. Literacy is about reading and comprehending. I especially liked the chapter on teacher clarity because that is so important. In order to build an environment that facilitates comprehension and understanding, the clarity has to be there as well or it can get muddled. Another chapter that I liked was student-led dialogic learning. It was very clear on how it can be useful.Corwin has a great line of education books and this one continues that quality.

I have read Douglas Fisher's Visible Learning for Literacy and was hoping that I would get more from this book. Not only is this book focused upon the grade levels that I teach instead of the whole K-12 spectrum, but I figured that with the focus on Teaching Literacy in the title that it would be more of a in depth at teaching strategies for a Visible Learning Classroom. Unfortunately, I felt like many of these strategies were the same that were discussed in his other book and ones that are often taught while you are in school. I didn't feel like anything was groundbreaking or new. They are good, research-based strategies, but I was hoping for something more specific. Overall, this is good to remind you to reflect upon your practice and ensure that you are meeting the needs of several different types of learners.