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Energize Research Reading And Writing: Fresh Strategies To Spark Interest, Develop Independence, And Meet Key Common Core Standards, Grades 4-8 (2012)

by Christopher Lehman(Favorite Author)

4.41 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0325043574 (ISBN13: 9780325043579)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Heinemann Educational Books

review 1: Christopher Lehman wants to give teachers the tools to let students embrace research. So often the term "research paper" instills visions of tedium, apathy, and academic detachment. Students only do it because it is forced upon them by their teachers. But Lehman wants to change all that. He wrote this book as a toolkit for teachers to empower students with choice and curiosity in their own learning endeavors. I particularly found the chapter on teaching students to write citations on their own to be the most concrete and useful. Some of the other chapters were a little more abstract and vague, but in general, the message of this book is clear: the desire of research should be to learn. Too often students aren't learning or don't want to learn from their research. We need t... moreo give them the tools to allow it to become a learning endeavor.
review 2: I felt as if I were sitting in Chris' classroom throughout this engaging and informative book. He makes both the strategies he employs as well as the pedagogy behind them explicit as he catalogues how he shows kids how to "teach" others about their research. Further, he reminds us that in order "to teach well is to see the great wide world of strategies and methods through the eyes of your students," (131) something this veteran teacher should have internalized by now. A must read. less

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