Corwin Literacy Series

BUNDLE: Fisher: On-Your-Feet Guide: This is Interactive Read Alouds: 10 Pack

by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Diane K Lapp, and Kelly Johnson

Published 3 February 2020

All On-Your-Feet Guide orders receive FREE SHIPPING! Use code SHIPOYFG at check out.

In this easy-to-use but comprehensive guide to Interactive Read-Alouds, teachers will learn what they are, how to prepare before, during and after an Interactive Read-Aloud, and how to assess it.

In this On-Your-Feet Guide, teachers will find:

Lesson outline included with "What the teacher says/does and What the student does displayed side-by-side.
An If-Then chart that helps teachers troubleshoot common problems.
Both the why and the how of assessing students included.

On-Your-Feet Guides (OYFGs) provide you with the ultimate "cheat sheet" to implement effective change in your classroom while in the moment of teaching. Designed for accessibility, and providing step-by-step guidance, the OYFGs are written by experts who take research-based practices and make them doable for the busy teacher.

Each On-Your-Feet Guide is laminated, 8.5"x11" tri-fold (6 pages), and 3-hole punched.

Use the On-Your-Feet Guides

When you know the "what" but need help with the "how"
As a quick reference to support a practice you learned in a PD workshop or book
To learn how to implement foundational practices
When you want to help your students learn a specific strategy, routine, or approach, but aren't sure how to do it yourself

Text-Dependent Questions, Grades 6-12

by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Heather L Anderson, and Marisol Thayre

Published 2 September 2014

This book scaffolds teachers as they learn to develop effective text dependent questions across ELA, science, and social studies/history with the goal of assisting students to read closely and comprehend deeply.

The Big Book of Literacy Tasks, Grades K-8

by Nancy Akhavan

Published 22 January 2018

Students must "do the doing" if they are to succeed. This groundbreaking book offers a literacy instruction plan designed to yield independent effort and engagement. The tasks in this book ensure gradual release, helping students forge their own path in becoming better readers and writers.

BUNDLE: Fisher: Teaching Literacy in the Visible Learning Classroom, Grades 6-12 + Fisher: Visible Learning for Literacy

by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and John Hattie

Published 28 February 2018

The question always arises for teachers: How do I influence students' learning-what's going to generate that light bulb Aha-moment of understanding? The bundle of Teaching Literacy in the Visible Learning Classroom, Grades 6-12 and Visible Learning for Literacy, Grades K-12 helps you answer that question by sharing structures, insights, and tools that have high-impact on learning. These practices are "visible" for teachers and students to see, because their purpose has been made clear, they are implemented at the right moment in a student's learning, and their effect is tangible. Yes, the "aha" moments made visible by design.

The authors show you how to use the right approach at the right time, so that you can more intentionally design classroom experiences that hit the surface, deep, and transfer phases of learning. With their expert lessons, video clips, and online resources including word sorts, concept mapping, close reading, annotating, discussion, formative assessment, feedback, collaborative learning, reciprocal teaching, and many more.

This bundle informs you about using the most effective practices-and knowing WHEN those practices are best leveraged to maximize student learning.

Becoming an Assessment-Capable Visible Learner, Grades 6-12, Level 1: Learner's Notebook

by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, John Hattie, and Karen T Flories

Published 1 March 2019

Designed to be used with the Becoming a Visible Learner Teacher's Guide, these notebooks continue the journey of Visible Learning by helping students monitor their own learning journey.

The On-Your-Feet Guide to Building Authentic Student-Teacher Relationships

by Dominique B. Smith, Douglas Fisher, and Nancy Frey

Published 18 February 2020

All On-Your-Feet Guide orders receive FREE SHIPPING! Use code SHIPOYFG at check out.

This On-Your-Feet Guide provides tested strategies for building authentic relationships with your students. These authentic relationships between students and adults ensure that students know that they are valued, respected, and trusted. Authentic relationships help students grow as individuals and they help educators grow as professionals. And, there is evidence that student-teacher relationships work to improve learning with an effect size of .52, above Hattie's average effect of .40.

An authentic relationship requires, time, effort, trust, and love. When this bond is built, it is hard for anything to eliminate that. Our goal in this guide is to help you:

understand the importance of relationships
identify ways to create productive relationships with students
identify ways maintain productive relationships with students

Each On-Your-Feet Guide is laminated, 8.5"x11" tri-fold (6 pages), and 3-hole punched.

Use the On-Your-Feet Guides
* When you know the "what" but need help with the "how"
* As a quick reference to support a practice you learned in a PD workshop or book
* To learn how to implement foundational practices
* When you want to help your students learn a specific strategy, routine, or approach, but aren't sure how to do it yourself

BUNDLE: Almarode: The On-Your-Feet Guide to Visible Learning: Assessment-Capable Teachers: 10 Pack

by John T. Almarode, Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and John Hattie

Published 3 February 2020

All On-Your-Feet Guide orders receive FREE SHIPPING! Use code SHIPOYFG at check out.

Developing learners who know where they are in their learning, where they're going, and how to get there-in other words, learners who are assessment-capable-is one of the principal aims of Visible Learning. However, we cannot help students be assessment-capable learners if teachers are not assessment-capable themselves. Teachers create assessment-capable learners through various targeted "moves" designed to:

Increase teacher clarity
Use the right teaching strategies at the right time
Provide effective feedback to learners
Model effective learning strategies themselves

Each On-Your-Feet Guide is laminated, 8.5"x11" tri-fold (6 pages), and 3-hole punched.

Use the On-Your-Feet Guides

When you know the "what" but need help with the "how"
As a quick reference to support a practice you learned in a PD workshop or book
To learn how to implement foundational practices
When you want to help your students learn a specific strategy, routine, or approach, but aren't sure how to do it yourself

BUNDLE: Fisher: On-Your-Feet Guide: This is Guided Reading, Grades K-2: 10 Pack

by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Diane K Lapp, and Kelly Johnson

Published 3 February 2020

All On-Your-Feet Guide orders receive FREE SHIPPING! Use code SHIPOYFG at check out.

In this easy-to-use but comprehensive guide to Guided Reading, Grades K-2, teachers will learn what guided reading is in the primary grades is, how to prepare before, during and after guided reading, and how to assess it.

This On-Your-Feet Guide includes:

Lesson outline included with "What the teacher says/does and What the student does displayed side-by-side.
An If-Then chart that helps teachers troubleshoot common problems.
Student language frames for narrative and nonfiction text are included.
Both the why and the how of assessing students included
Numerous helpful hints

Each On-Your-Feet Guide is laminated, 8.5"x11" tri-fold (6 pages), and 3-hole punched.

Use the On-Your-Feet Guides

When you know the "what" but need help with the "how"
As a quick reference to support a practice you learned in a PD workshop or book
To learn how to implement foundational practices
When you want to help your students learn a specific strategy, routine, or approach, but aren't sure how to do it yourself

Becoming an Assessment-Capable Visible Learner, Grades 3-5: Learner′s Notebook

by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, John Hattie, and Karen T Flories

Published 25 December 2018

On-Your-Feet Guide: This Is Guided Reading, Grades K-2

by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Diane K Lapp, and Kelly Johnson

Published 18 February 2020

All On-Your-Feet Guide orders receive FREE SHIPPING! Use code SHIPOYFG at check out.

This On-Your-Feet Guide includes:

Lesson outline included with "What the teacher says/does and What the student does displayed side-by-side.
An If-Then chart that helps teachers troubleshoot common problems.
Student language frames for narrative and nonfiction text are included.
Both the why and the how of assessing students included
Numerous helpful hints

Each On-Your-Feet Guide is laminated, 8.5"x11" tri-fold (6 pages), and 3-hole punched.

Use the On-Your-Feet Guides

When you know the "what" but need help with the "how"
As a quick reference to support a practice you learned in a PD workshop or book
To learn how to implement foundational practices
When you want to help your students learn a specific strategy, routine, or approach, but aren't sure how to do it yourself

On-Your-Feet Guide: This Is Interactive Read-Alouds, Grades K-6

by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Diane K Lapp, and Kelly Johnson

Published 18 February 2020

All On-Your-Feet Guide orders receive FREE SHIPPING! Use code SHIPOYFG at check out.

In this easy-to-use but comprehensive guide to Interactive Read-Alouds, teachers will learn what they are, how to prepare before, during and after an Interactive Read-Aloud, and how to assess it.

In this On-Your-Feet Guide, teachers will find:

Lesson outline included with "What the teacher says/does and What the student does displayed side-by-side.
An If-Then chart that helps teachers troubleshoot common problems.
Both the why and the how of assessing students included.

Each On-Your-Feet Guide is laminated, 8.5"x11" tri-fold (6 pages), and 3-hole punched.

Use the On-Your-Feet Guides

When you know the "what" but need help with the "how"
As a quick reference to support a practice you learned in a PD workshop or book
To learn how to implement foundational practices
When you want to help your students learn a specific strategy, routine, or approach, but aren't sure how to do it yourself

On-Your-Feet Guide: This Is Shared Reading, Grades K-6

by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Diane K Lapp, and Kelly Johnson

Published 18 February 2020

All On-Your-Feet Guide orders receive FREE SHIPPING! Use code SHIPOYFG at check out.

In this easy-to-use but comprehensive guide to Shared Reading, teachers will learn what shared reading is, how to prepare before, during and after shared reading, and how to assess it.

In this On-Your-Feet Guide, teachers will find:

Lesson outline included with "What the teacher says/does and What the student does displayed side-by-side.
An If-Then chart that helps teachers troubleshoot common problems.
Student language frames for narrative and nonfiction text are included.
Assessment advice and helpful hints

Each On-Your-Feet Guide is laminated, 8.5"x11" tri-fold (6 pages), and 3-hole punched.

Use the On-Your-Feet Guides

When you know the "what" but need help with the "how"
As a quick reference to support a practice you learned in a PD workshop or book
To learn how to implement foundational practices
When you want to help your students learn a specific strategy, routine, or approach, but aren't sure how to do it yourself

On-Your-Feet Guide: This Is Interactive Writing, Grades K-6

by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Diane K Lapp, and Kelly Johnson

Published 18 February 2020

All On-Your-Feet Guide orders receive FREE SHIPPING! Use code SHIPOYFG at check out.

In this easy-to-use but comprehensive guide to Interactive Writing, teachers will learn what interactive writing is, how to prepare before, during and after interactive writing, and how to assess it.

In this On-Your-Feet Guide, teachers will find:

A list of teaching points or purposes that you might address during your interactive writing lessons
If-Then chart that helps you troubleshoot common problems in implementation
Lessons for both K-2 and 3-5, complete with teaching language and what the student does in each part of the lesson

Each On-Your-Feet Guide is laminated, 8.5"x11" tri-fold (6 pages), and 3-hole punched.

Use the On-Your-Feet Guides

When you know the "what" but need help with the "how"
As a quick reference to support a practice you learned in a PD workshop or book
To learn how to implement foundational practices
When you want to help your students learn a specific strategy, routine, or approach, but aren't sure how to do it yourself

On-Your-Feet Guide: This Is Guided Reading, Grades 3-6

by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Diane K Lapp, and Kelly Johnson

Published 18 February 2020

All On-Your-Feet Guide orders receive FREE SHIPPING! Use code SHIPOYFG at check out.

In this easy-to-use but comprehensive guide to Guided Reading, Grades 3-5, teachers will learn what guided reading is in the upper elementary grades is, how to prepare before, during and after guided reading, and how to assess it.

In this On-Your-Feet Guide, teachers will find:

Lesson outline included with "What the teacher says/does and What the student does displayed side-by-side.
An If-Then chart helps teachers troubleshoot common problems.
Student language frames for narrative and nonfiction text are included.
Both the why and the how of assessing students included.

Each On-Your-Feet Guide is laminated, 8.5"x11" tri-fold (6 pages), and 3-hole punched.

Use the On-Your-Feet Guides

When you know the "what" but need help with the "how"
As a quick reference to support a practice you learned in a PD workshop or book
To learn how to implement foundational practices
When you want to help your students learn a specific strategy, routine, or approach, but aren't sure how to do it yourself

Text-Dependent Questions, Grades K-5

by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Heather L Anderson, and Marisol Thayre

Published 2 September 2014

In this book the authors debunk the myth that Text Dependent Questions are all level 1 who, what, when where, how questions and instead offer readers a purposeful and thoughtful instructional routine that includes four levels of questioning as well as a focus on talk and collaboration every step of the way.

Rigorous Reading

by Nancy Frey and Douglas Fisher

Published 30 August 2013

What it really means to "read closely."

What could Fern Arable, Jay Gatsby, and Winston Churchill possibly have in common? They all need masterful teachers to help students revel in their complexity. And Nancy Frey and Doug Fisher are just the two mentors to help you make that happen.

Call it close reading, call it deep reading, call it analytic reading-call it what you like. The point is, it's a level of understanding that students of any age can achieve with the right kind of instruction. In Rigorous Reading, Nancy and Doug articulate an instructional plan so clearly, and so squarely built on research, that teachers, schools, and districts need look no further.

The 5 Access Points Toward Proficiency

Purpose & Modeling: Teachers think aloud to demonstrate critical thinking and how good readers always know why they are reading.
Close & Scaffolded Reading Instruction: Teachers engage students in repeated readings and discussions, with text-dependent questions, prompts, and cues to help students delve into an author's ideas.
Collaborative Conversations: Teachers orchestrate collaborative learning to get students in the habit of exercising their analytical thinking in the presence of their peers.
An Independent Reading Staircase: Teachers artfully steer students to more challenging books, with strategic bursts of instruction and peer conferences to foster metacognitive awareness.
Performance: Teachers offer feedback and assessments that help students demonstrate understanding of text in authentic ways and plan instruction based on student understanding.

There's more . . . Also included are illustrative classroom video clips available via QR codes along with an online Facilitator's Guide with PowerPoints--making Rigorous Reading the only resource a teacher, school, or district needs to seriously stretch students' capacity to read and comprehend text.

Nancy Frey, Ph.D., is Professor of Educational Leadership at San Diego State University. The recipient of the 2008 Early Career Achievement Award from the Literacy Research Association, she is also a teacher-leader at Health Sciences High & Middle College and a credentialed special educator, reading specialist, and administrator in California. Nancy can be reached at nfrey@mail.sdsu.edu.

Douglas Fisher, Ph.D., is Professor of Educational Leadership at San Diego State University and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High & Middle College. He is the recipient of an IRA Celebrate Literacy Award, NCTE's Farmer Award for Excellence in Writing, as well as a Christa McAuliffe Award for Excellence in Teacher Education. He is a credentialed English teacher and administrator in California. Doug can be reached at dfisher@mail.sdsu.edu.

Nancy and Doug collaborate often. Text Complexity (IRA, 2012) is among their many best-selling texts-and Rigorous Reading's precursor, which explains what exactly makes a text "hard."

The Nonfiction Now Lesson Bank, Grades 4-8

by Nancy Akhavan

Published 4 February 2014

Comprehension [Grades K-12]

by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Nicole V. Law

Published 20 August 2020

Comprehension is the structured, comprehensive, three-pronged approach-skill, will, and thrill-you need to empower students to comprehend text and take action in the world.

Removing Labels, Grades K-12

by Dominique B. Smith, Douglas Fisher, and Nancy Frey

Published 2 February 2021

Rebound, Grades K-12

by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Dominique B. Smith, and John Hattie

Published 20 March 2021

“The greatest travesty that can arise for schools after 2020/21,” Doug, Nancy, Dominique, and John write, “is to rush back to the old normal, and learn nothing, or little, about what worked well. That’s why this book has focused on rebounding, and taking the opportunity to create an even better schooling system, one that serves even more students, and focuses more on what matters most.”