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No matter your style of teaching, at critical moments throughout the school day it's most effective to teach everyone at once. Whole-Class Teaching offers learning-centered ways to maximize entire-class instruction by creating energizing, engaging teaching that everyone will find useful. Whether you're stepping into your first classroom or you've taught for years, Whole-Class Teaching presents wise, purposeful ideas for using language, modeling skills and techniques, and establishing community when you're teaching everyone at once. Janet Angelillo (author of Writing About Reading and Writing to the Prompt) helps you avoid the pitfalls of traditional direct instruction that inhibit learning and shows you high-quality practices for whole-class teaching opportunities such as: morning meetings minilessons read-alouds share times celebrations extended coaching sessions. Angelillo's ideas create personal and intellectual connections by validating students' experiences, and they build structure into your day while promoting student responsibility by balancing routines with independence. Best of all Whole-Class Teaching demonstrates how to adjust the teaching of minilessons to optimally support specific goals such as inquiry, coaching, and demonstration. Angelillo even provides detailed tools for self-assessment and for finding out more through teacher study groups. You already have powerful instructional moments with small groups and individual students. Now let Whole-Class Teaching gives you the chance to turn every moment of your day into an opportunity to change a kid's life and learning - and to help you make the most of your teaching time, too.
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Whole-Class Teaching Minilessons and More
Janet Angelillo
HEINEMANN Portsmouth, NH
Heinemann 361 Hanover Street Portsmouth, NH 03801–3912 www.heinemann.com Offices and agents throughout the world © 2008 by Janet Angelillo All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Angelillo, Janet. Whole-class teaching: minilessons and more / Janet Angelillo p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-325-00971-1 ISBN-10: 0-325-00971-6 1. Effective teaching. 2. Classroom environment. 3. Teacher-student relationships. 4. Interpersonal communication. I. Title. LB1025.3.A54 2008 371.39—dc22 2007038775 Editor: Kate Montgomery Production editor: Sonja S. Chapman Cover design: Jenny Jensen Greenleaf Cover photograph: © Superstock, Inc. Compositor: Eric Rosenbloom, Kirby Mountain Composition Manufacturing: Steve Bernier Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 12 11 10 09 08 RRD 1 2 3 4 5
To Charles, with love and trust
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Contents Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Part One
Integrity and Compassion: The Universal Truths of Teaching
Chapter 1
The Respectful Teaching Life: Modeling Compassionate and Intellectual Relationships . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 2
Validating Students’ Experiences: Wisdom and Integrity in Teaching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Chapter 3
The Finer Points of Making Minilessons Work: Routines, Independence, Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Part Two
Clarity and Precision: The Practice of Teaching
Chapter 4
The Art of the Minilesson or Time W