The award-winning how-to guide for building a celebratory culture of reading…transform the literacy culture in your classroom or school community!
Engaged students achieve better reading success. Grounded in current research, this book provides resources and strategies to help educators improve literacy culture in their schools and inspire a love of reading in their students. Author Lorraine M. Radice shares ways in which all stakeholders can contribute to students’ reading engagement.
How can this book support your work?
Teachers and instructional coaches gain practical ways to build an engaging culture of reading with step-by-step plans, ready-to-use resources, and book lists to support work in the classroom.
School and district leaders can access clear, outlined plans with resources for engaging all stakeholders in building reading culture and supporting students’ reading lives including parents, caregivers, and local community members.
Use this book as a faculty and leadership team book study. Each chapter includes reflection questions and planning prompts for educators to start the work in their classrooms and schools right away.
Do you have several initiatives in your school? Use this book to learn how integrating reading and book selections can support a variety of projects and goals.
Design future-ready experiences in the classroom…make learning engaging, make learning relevant to kids!
Lorraine Radice’s new “how-to” workbook-style book provides a step-by-step process for English educators to design future-ready literacy experiences in secondary English classrooms. Grades 6–12 teachers will find practical steps and resources, including reflection questions and tools, to aid curriculum development and reflection. Prioritize engagement and relevance in curriculum and instruction using the tools in this book.
How can this book support your work?
Teachers and instructional coaches gain practical ways to design curriculum that supports students in learning subject-area content and in future-ready skill development. Unit planners, lesson plan maps, sample units of study, and curriculum design resources and material are provided in the book. There is a chapter dedicated to the writing process, research process, and reading process.
Department, school, and district leaders can access clear, outlined plans for curriculum development with supporting research. Chapters include research-based information about future-ready skills, systematic and explicit instruction, student choice, ongoing assessment and reflection, and student agency and application.
Use this book as a grade-level, department, faculty or leadership team book study. Each chapter includes reflection questions and planning prompts for educators to start the work in their classrooms and schools right away. Readers can write reflections in their book to take advantage of the workbook-style design.
Want to align approaches to instruction in your school? Use this book as a tool to educate various teams about disciplinary literacy, future-ready skills, and process-oriented instruction.
Interested in having Lorraine work with your team with Leading A Culture of Reading: How to Ignite & Sustain a Love of Literacy in Your School Community or Revolving Literacy: How to Connect Relevance and Future-Ready Skills to Secondary English Instruction? Lorraine will plan with you on how to integrate the book into professional learning and design action plans from the book that meet the needs of your school community. Sample plans are:
Host a book study with Lorraine.
Invite Lorraine to do a book talk or introductory presentation about the contents of the book to help get your work started.
Work with Lorraine to create action plans using strategies from the book that suit your school or class community.
Lorraine’s work has been published in:
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Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment: Intersecting New Needs and New Approaches
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Literacy Today by International Literacy Association
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Educational Leadership by ASCD
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National Council of Teachers of English Blog
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Edutopia
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ASCD Blog
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Solution Tree Blog
