Mindsets and Moves
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What if you could have an owner’s manual on reading ownership? What if there really were a framework for building students’ agency and independence?
There’s no “what if?” about it. When it comes to teaching reading, Gravity Goldberg declares there is a structure, one that works with your current curriculum, to help readers take charge. The way forward Gravity says lies in admiring, studying, and really getting to know your students.
Consider Mindsets & Moves your guide. Here, Gravity describes how to let go of our default roles of assigner, monitor, and manager and instead shift to a growth mindset. Easily replicable in any setting, any time, her 4 Ms framework ultimately lightens your load because they allow students to monitor and direct their reading lives.
- Miner: Uncovering Students’ Reading Processes (Focus: Assessment)
- Mirror: Giving Feedback That Reinforces a Growth Mindset (Focus: Feedback)
- Model: Showing Readers What We Do (Focus: Demonstration]
- Mentor: Guiding Students to Try New Ways of Reading (Focus: Guided Practice and Coaching)
Get started on the 4Ms tomorrow! Gravity has loaded the book with practical examples, lessons, reading process and strategy lists, and a 35-page photo tour of exemplary reading classrooms with captions that distill best practices. All figures, student work and photographs are provided in vibrant, full color.
We are in the midst of an ownership crisis, and readers of every ability and in every grade are more often compliant than fully engaged. Use Mindsets & Moves as that rare resource that
makes something highly complex suddenly clear and inspiring for you.
GRAVITY GOLDBERG is coauthor of Conferring with Readers: Supporting Each Students’ Growth and Independence (Heinemann, 2007) and author of many articles about reading, writing, and professional development. She holds a doctorate in education from Teachers College, Columbia University. She is a former staff developer at Teachers College Reading and Writing Project and an assistant professor at Iona College’s graduate education program. She leads a team of literacy consultants in the New York/New Jersey region.
“Mindsets and Moves addresses, in a very engaging way, the most important aspects of classroom literacy instruction. It shows how to think about and interact with children around literacy. Thoroughly grounded in current theories, which are clearly explained and illustrated with stories and examples, the book is absolutely practical with excellent examples of lessons, anchor charts and all of the necessary details.” — Peter Johnston, Author of Choice Words and Opening Minds
Contents
Chapter One. Reading on One’s Own: What We Really Mean by Take-Charge Independence
- What Does It Really Mean to Read on One’s Own?
- Examining Teacher Roles
- Taking the Spotlight Off the Teacher
- The Facets of Ownership
- How Rigor Fits In
- The Pitfalls of Turning Play Into Work: Motivation Challenges
Chapter Two. Shifting Roles: Be a Miner, a Mirror, a Model, a Mentor
- The Gift of Problems: Creating a Willingness to Struggle
- Shifting Roles Toward Reader Ownership
- What Shifted?
- Taking on New Teacher Roles: The 4 Ms
- How Ownership Sits Within the Gradual Release Model
Chapter Three. Being an Admirer: Looking at Readers With Curiosity
- Admiring Allows Us to See What Is There
- Admiring Gives Us Glimpses Into Our Students’ Minds
- Admiring Lets Us See Potential
- Admiring Helps Us Recognize Individuality
- Admiring Pushes Us to Be Precise
- Admiring Gives Us the Small and Big Picture
- Admiring Supports a Growth Mindset
- Admiring Creates Growth Mindset Expectations
- Language Impacts Mindset
- Admiring Impacts Our Guiding Questions
- Start Admiring!
Chapter Four. Creating Space for Ownership: A Photo Tour of Reading Classrooms
- Reading Process Spiral
- Reading Workshop Space
- Class Meeting Area
- Reading Notebooks
- Tracking Reading Volume
- Class Goals Chart
- Book Club Tools and Spaces
- Student Intentions
- Small Group Instruction
- Reading Nooks
- Student Reflections
Chapter Five. Be a Miner: Uncovering Students’ Reading Processes
- Using a Five-Step Process
- Uncovering One Student’s Reading Process
- Uncovering a Class’s Reading Processes
- Choosing When to Be a Miner
- Admiring Trouble
Chapter Six. Be a Mirror: Giving Feedback That Reinforces a Growth Mindset
- Feedback Teaches
- Preparing to Give Feedback
- Being a Mirror to a Small Group
- Being a Mirror to the Whole Class
- Admiring Trouble
Chapter Seven. Be a Model: Showing Readers What We Do
- Being a Model
- Being a Model to One Student
- Are We Really Modeling?
- Planning to Model for the Whole Class
- Preparing to Be a Model
- Modeling, Not Assigning
- Admiring Trouble
Chapter Eight. Be a Mentor: Guiding Students to Try New Ways of Reading
- Being a Mentor
- Break Down Strategies Into Steps
- Mentoring a Small Group of Readers
- Mentoring the Whole Class During a Read Aloud
- Admiring Trouble
Chapter Nine. Teaching Students Strategies for How to Be Admirers
- How to Talk About Your Reading Process
- How to Set Goals for Yourself as a Reader
- How to Reflect on Your Mindset
- How to Give Each Other Feedback
- How to Ask for Support
Chapter Ten. Embracing Curiosity: Entry Points for Getting Started
- Entry Point 1: Shift Roles
- Entry Point 2: Shift Lenses From Deficit to Admiring
- Entry Point 3: Shift Your Focus From the Teacher to Students
- Entry Point 4: Shift Classroom Spaces
- Entry Point 5: Shift Toward Feedback From Students
- Entry Point 6: Shift Toward Feedback From Trusted Colleagues
- Entry Point 7: Admire Yourself
Appendices
- Appendix A. Student-Focused Reading Checklist
- Appendix B. Continuum: How We Might Shift Our Instruction Toward Ownership
- Appendix C. Chart of Balanced Literacy Reading Components
Reproducible Classroom Charts
- Be a Miner
- Be a Mirror
- Be a Model
- Be a Mentor
References
References
Index
Index
Resources
Companion Website
https://resources.corwin.com/mindsetsandmovesAdditional materials
Description
What if you could have an owner’s manual on reading ownership? What if there really were a framework for building students’ agency and independence?
There’s no “what if?” about it. When it comes to teaching reading, Gravity Goldberg declares there is a structure, one that works with your current curriculum, to help readers take charge. The way forward Gravity says lies in admiring, studying, and really getting to know your students.
Consider Mindsets & Moves your guide. Here, Gravity describes how to let go of our default roles of assigner, monitor, and manager and instead shift to a growth mindset. Easily replicable in any setting, any time, her 4 Ms framework ultimately lightens your load because they allow students to monitor and direct their reading lives.
- Miner: Uncovering Students’ Reading Processes (Focus: Assessment)
- Mirror: Giving Feedback That Reinforces a Growth Mindset (Focus: Feedback)
- Model: Showing Readers What We Do (Focus: Demonstration]
- Mentor: Guiding Students to Try New Ways of Reading (Focus: Guided Practice and Coaching)
Get started on the 4Ms tomorrow! Gravity has loaded the book with practical examples, lessons, reading process and strategy lists, and a 35-page photo tour of exemplary reading classrooms with captions that distill best practices. All figures, student work and photographs are provided in vibrant, full color.
We are in the midst of an ownership crisis, and readers of every ability and in every grade are more often compliant than fully engaged. Use Mindsets & Moves as that rare resource that
makes something highly complex suddenly clear and inspiring for you.
GRAVITY GOLDBERG is coauthor of Conferring with Readers: Supporting Each Students’ Growth and Independence (Heinemann, 2007) and author of many articles about reading, writing, and professional development. She holds a doctorate in education from Teachers College, Columbia University. She is a former staff developer at Teachers College Reading and Writing Project and an assistant professor at Iona College’s graduate education program. She leads a team of literacy consultants in the New York/New Jersey region.
“Mindsets and Moves addresses, in a very engaging way, the most important aspects of classroom literacy instruction. It shows how to think about and interact with children around literacy. Thoroughly grounded in current theories, which are clearly explained and illustrated with stories and examples, the book is absolutely practical with excellent examples of lessons, anchor charts and all of the necessary details.” — Peter Johnston, Author of Choice Words and Opening Minds
Contents
Chapter One. Reading on One’s Own: What We Really Mean by Take-Charge Independence
- What Does It Really Mean to Read on One’s Own?
- Examining Teacher Roles
- Taking the Spotlight Off the Teacher
- The Facets of Ownership
- How Rigor Fits In
- The Pitfalls of Turning Play Into Work: Motivation Challenges
Chapter Two. Shifting Roles: Be a Miner, a Mirror, a Model, a Mentor
- The Gift of Problems: Creating a Willingness to Struggle
- Shifting Roles Toward Reader Ownership
- What Shifted?
- Taking on New Teacher Roles: The 4 Ms
- How Ownership Sits Within the Gradual Release Model
Chapter Three. Being an Admirer: Looking at Readers With Curiosity
- Admiring Allows Us to See What Is There
- Admiring Gives Us Glimpses Into Our Students’ Minds
- Admiring Lets Us See Potential
- Admiring Helps Us Recognize Individuality
- Admiring Pushes Us to Be Precise
- Admiring Gives Us the Small and Big Picture
- Admiring Supports a Growth Mindset
- Admiring Creates Growth Mindset Expectations
- Language Impacts Mindset
- Admiring Impacts Our Guiding Questions
- Start Admiring!
Chapter Four. Creating Space for Ownership: A Photo Tour of Reading Classrooms
- Reading Process Spiral
- Reading Workshop Space
- Class Meeting Area
- Reading Notebooks
- Tracking Reading Volume
- Class Goals Chart
- Book Club Tools and Spaces
- Student Intentions
- Small Group Instruction
- Reading Nooks
- Student Reflections
Chapter Five. Be a Miner: Uncovering Students’ Reading Processes
- Using a Five-Step Process
- Uncovering One Student’s Reading Process
- Uncovering a Class’s Reading Processes
- Choosing When to Be a Miner
- Admiring Trouble
Chapter Six. Be a Mirror: Giving Feedback That Reinforces a Growth Mindset
- Feedback Teaches
- Preparing to Give Feedback
- Being a Mirror to a Small Group
- Being a Mirror to the Whole Class
- Admiring Trouble
Chapter Seven. Be a Model: Showing Readers What We Do
- Being a Model
- Being a Model to One Student
- Are We Really Modeling?
- Planning to Model for the Whole Class
- Preparing to Be a Model
- Modeling, Not Assigning
- Admiring Trouble
Chapter Eight. Be a Mentor: Guiding Students to Try New Ways of Reading
- Being a Mentor
- Break Down Strategies Into Steps
- Mentoring a Small Group of Readers
- Mentoring the Whole Class During a Read Aloud
- Admiring Trouble
Chapter Nine. Teaching Students Strategies for How to Be Admirers
- How to Talk About Your Reading Process
- How to Set Goals for Yourself as a Reader
- How to Reflect on Your Mindset
- How to Give Each Other Feedback
- How to Ask for Support
Chapter Ten. Embracing Curiosity: Entry Points for Getting Started
- Entry Point 1: Shift Roles
- Entry Point 2: Shift Lenses From Deficit to Admiring
- Entry Point 3: Shift Your Focus From the Teacher to Students
- Entry Point 4: Shift Classroom Spaces
- Entry Point 5: Shift Toward Feedback From Students
- Entry Point 6: Shift Toward Feedback From Trusted Colleagues
- Entry Point 7: Admire Yourself
Appendices
- Appendix A. Student-Focused Reading Checklist
- Appendix B. Continuum: How We Might Shift Our Instruction Toward Ownership
- Appendix C. Chart of Balanced Literacy Reading Components
Reproducible Classroom Charts
- Be a Miner
- Be a Mirror
- Be a Model
- Be a Mentor
References
References
Index
Index
Resources
Companion Website
https://resources.corwin.com/mindsetsandmovesAdditional materials
Reviews
Mindsets and Moves
Strategies That Help Readers Take Charge [Grades K-8]
September 2015 | 240 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 01/01/2025 | 9781506314938 | $40.95 |
| Lifetime | 01/01/2025 | 9781506325040 | $37.00 |
What if you could have an owner’s manual on reading ownership? What if there really were a framework for building students’ agency and independence?
There’s no “what if?” about it. When it comes to teaching reading, Gravity Goldberg declares there is a structure, one that works with your current curriculum, to help readers take charge. The way forward Gravity says lies in admiring, studying, and really getting to know your students.
Consider Mindsets & Moves your guide. Here, Gravity describes how to let go of our default roles of assigner, monitor, and manager and instead shift to a growth mindset. Easily replicable in any setting, any time, her 4 Ms framework ultimately lightens your load because they allow students to monitor and direct their reading lives.
- Miner: Uncovering Students’ Reading Processes (Focus: Assessment)
- Mirror: Giving Feedback That Reinforces a Growth Mindset (Focus: Feedback)
- Model: Showing Readers What We Do (Focus: Demonstration]
- Mentor: Guiding Students to Try New Ways of Reading (Focus: Guided Practice and Coaching)
Get started on the 4Ms tomorrow! Gravity has loaded the book with practical examples, lessons, reading process and strategy lists, and a 35-page photo tour of exemplary reading classrooms with captions that distill best practices. All figures, student work and photographs are provided in vibrant, full color.
We are in the midst of an ownership crisis, and readers of every ability and in every grade are more often compliant than fully engaged. Use Mindsets & Moves as that rare resource that
makes something highly complex suddenly clear and inspiring for you.
GRAVITY GOLDBERG is coauthor of Conferring with Readers: Supporting Each Students’ Growth and Independence (Heinemann, 2007) and author of many articles about reading, writing, and professional development. She holds a doctorate in education from Teachers College, Columbia University. She is a former staff developer at Teachers College Reading and Writing Project and an assistant professor at Iona College’s graduate education program. She leads a team of literacy consultants in the New York/New Jersey region.
“Mindsets and Moves addresses, in a very engaging way, the most important aspects of classroom literacy instruction. It shows how to think about and interact with children around literacy. Thoroughly grounded in current theories, which are clearly explained and illustrated with stories and examples, the book is absolutely practical with excellent examples of lessons, anchor charts and all of the necessary details.” — Peter Johnston, Author of Choice Words and Opening Minds
Table Of Contents:
- Chapter One. Reading on One’s Own: What We Really Mean by Take-Charge Independence
- What Does It Really Mean to Read on One’s Own?
- Examining Teacher Roles
- Taking the Spotlight Off the Teacher
- The Facets of Ownership
- How Rigor Fits In
- The Pitfalls of Turning Play Into Work: Motivation Challenges
- Chapter Two. Shifting Roles: Be a Miner, a Mirror, a Model, a Mentor
- The Gift of Problems: Creating a Willingness to Struggle
- Shifting Roles Toward Reader Ownership
- What Shifted?
- Taking on New Teacher Roles: The 4 Ms
- How Ownership Sits Within the Gradual Release Model
- Chapter Three. Being an Admirer: Looking at Readers With Curiosity
- Admiring Allows Us to See What Is There
- Admiring Gives Us Glimpses Into Our Students’ Minds
- Admiring Lets Us See Potential
- Admiring Helps Us Recognize Individuality
- Admiring Pushes Us to Be Precise
- Admiring Gives Us the Small and Big Picture
- Admiring Supports a Growth Mindset
- Admiring Creates Growth Mindset Expectations
- Language Impacts Mindset
- Admiring Impacts Our Guiding Questions
- Start Admiring!
- Chapter Four. Creating Space for Ownership: A Photo Tour of Reading Classrooms
- Reading Process Spiral
- Reading Workshop Space
- Class Meeting Area
- Reading Notebooks
- Tracking Reading Volume
- Class Goals Chart
- Book Club Tools and Spaces
- Student Intentions
- Small Group Instruction
- Reading Nooks
- Student Reflections
- Chapter Five. Be a Miner: Uncovering Students’ Reading Processes
- Using a Five-Step Process
- Uncovering One Student’s Reading Process
- Uncovering a Class’s Reading Processes
- Choosing When to Be a Miner
- Admiring Trouble
- Chapter Six. Be a Mirror: Giving Feedback That Reinforces a Growth Mindset
- Feedback Teaches
- Preparing to Give Feedback
- Being a Mirror to a Small Group
- Being a Mirror to the Whole Class
- Admiring Trouble
- Chapter Seven. Be a Model: Showing Readers What We Do
- Being a Model
- Being a Model to One Student
- Are We Really Modeling?
- Planning to Model for the Whole Class
- Preparing to Be a Model
- Modeling, Not Assigning
- Admiring Trouble
- Chapter Eight. Be a Mentor: Guiding Students to Try New Ways of Reading
- Being a Mentor
- Break Down Strategies Into Steps
- Mentoring a Small Group of Readers
- Mentoring the Whole Class During a Read Aloud
- Admiring Trouble
- Chapter Nine. Teaching Students Strategies for How to Be Admirers
- How to Talk About Your Reading Process
- How to Set Goals for Yourself as a Reader
- How to Reflect on Your Mindset
- How to Give Each Other Feedback
- How to Ask for Support
- Chapter Ten. Embracing Curiosity: Entry Points for Getting Started
- Entry Point 1: Shift Roles
- Entry Point 2: Shift Lenses From Deficit to Admiring
- Entry Point 3: Shift Your Focus From the Teacher to Students
- Entry Point 4: Shift Classroom Spaces
- Entry Point 5: Shift Toward Feedback From Students
- Entry Point 6: Shift Toward Feedback From Trusted Colleagues
- Entry Point 7: Admire Yourself
- Appendices
- Appendix A. Student-Focused Reading Checklist
- Appendix B. Continuum: How We Might Shift Our Instruction Toward Ownership
- Appendix C. Chart of Balanced Literacy Reading Components
- Reproducible Classroom Charts
- Be a Miner
- Be a Mirror
- Be a Model
- Be a Mentor
- References
- Index