In their hit books Notice and Note and Reading Nonfiction, Kylene Beers and Bob Probst showed teachers how to help students become close readers. Now, in Disrupting Thinking
they take teachers a step further and discuss an on-going problem: lack
of engagement with reading. They explain that all too often, no matter
the strategy shared with students, too many students remain disengaged
and reluctant readers. The problem, they suggest, is that we have
misrepresented to students why we read and how we ought to approach any
text - fiction or nonfiction.
With their hallmark humor and
their appreciated practicality, Beers and Probst present a vision of
what reading and what education across all the grades could be.
Hands-on-strategies make it applicable right away for the classroom
teacher, and turn-and-talk discussion points make it a guidebook for
school-wide conversations. In particular, they share new strategies and
ideas for helping classroom teachers:
--Create engagement and relevance
--Encourage responsive and responsible reading
--Deepen comprehension
--Develop lifelong reading habits
“We think it’s time we finally do become a nation of readers, and we
know it’s time students learn to tell fake news from real news. It’s
time we help students understand why how they read is so important,”
explain Beers and Probst. “Disrupting Thinking is, at its heart,
an exploration of how we help students become the reader who does so
much more than decode, recall, or choose the correct answer from a
multiple-choice list. This book shows us how to help students become the
critical thinkers our nation needs them to be."
