CUIN 524

Professional Resource Review

Burke, J. (2000).Reading reminders: Tools, tips, and techniques.Heinemann.

Overview

This book is designed as a quick read that would support working teachers and pre-service teachers as they help their students strive to become accomplished readers and writers.I consider this book amust have for all high school teachers.It contains specific strategies to be used by students across all content areas.The overall content includes ideas for what teachers must do to establish a reading culture, to teach and support students, to evaluate theirown teaching and ways to evaluate students learning.Additionally, the content includes ideas to enhance student learning such as reading a variety of texts for different purposes, using various strategies to develop their own reading capacity and evaluating and monitoring their own understanding, performance, and progress. Each tool, tip and technique is concisely organized with the following subheadings: reminder, rationale, what to do, graphic organizers, and reading reminders.The appendix contains ready to copy graphic organizers as well as additional supplemental classroom resources.

Authorsí Essential Beliefs About Assessment 

• Students can read difficult texts and materials if we support their reading development.

• Reading is a complex issue especially when trying to guide students from diverse backgrounds, reading levels despite time limits, interruptions, and general distractions that occur in a typical period.

• Schools need to develop and use a common set of strategies, habits and terms to help students become better readers in all subject areas. 

• Colleagues and teachers become confident, effective teachers of reading who work together to ensure that all students inherit a lifelong passion for reading. 

• ìThe prime value of reading and writing is the experience they provide through which we may constantly and unobtrusively learn.î 

• ì. . . we bring our own set of talents, strategies, cultures, and perspectives, all of which inevitably color our reading of any text.î

• ìReading is a physical as well as intellectual experience, one that becomes more complex as technology spawns new, more interactive types of texts.î

to importune you like a lover or a parent, 

to stick in your teeth like a piece ofgristle.î

Anatole Broyard