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The value of assessment is in its usefulness to the teacher and the student, not as an isolated mental activity. If we don't use the information we generate about our students to inform our instruction, we are simply "navel-gazing." Frank Serafini Need to know more about your readers? Frustrated by test-driven assessments that merely mimic real reading behaviors. Classroom Reading Assessments returns assessment to its simple, crucial essence: knowing students-really knowing them-so that your teaching addresses their individual strengths and needs. Frank Serafini helps you open windows into students' invisible mental processes as they select books, read and make sense of them, and respond to them. He gives you his best of the best-classroom-proven, research-based assessments for before, during, and after reading that meet four stringent requirements: They improve your students' reading They increase your effectiveness by pinpointing where students need help They maximize efficiency by avoiding unnecessary instructional interruptions They make sharing what you learn about students-with parents, other teachers, and instructional leaders-simple, direct, and useful. At heineman.com, Frank even provides his most helpful customizable reproducible forms for assessment. "We have to know the students in our rooms in deeper, more significant ways if we expect to be able to teach them more effectively and support their development as readers," writes Frank Serafini. Whether you need flexible assessment tools for RTI, or you're looking for clearer windows into your readers' thinking, Classroom Reading Assessments is your guide to doable, high-quality assessments that help everyone in the classroom learn more-including you.

Frank Serafini has written extensively on the reading workshop, and in talks around the country he's answered the tough questions about teaching through this powerful medium. Now in Around the Reading Workshop in 180 Days, his most practical book to date, Serafini answers your most frequently asked questions and shows you the daily ins and outs of the workshop. Picking up where his best-selling titles The Reading Workshop and Lessons in Comprehension left off, Serafini gives you month-by-month strategies for running a reading workshop across an entire school year. He provides everything you need to change the way intermediate and middle-level students think and talk about reading, including: - instructional strategies- how-tos for organizing- ideas for lessons- ways to connect reading and writing instruction- assessment and evaluation techniques- tips for helping students choose books- lists of recommended children's literature for your students and recommended professional resources for you.In addition, classroom teacher Suzette Serafini-Youngs illustrates Serafini's ideas with "Windows on the Workshop," classroom vignettes that bridge theory to practice and demonstrate with precision the teacher's role in workshop-based instruction. Whether you're a thirty-year veteran or a novice teacher, go Around the Reading Workshop in 180 Days with Frank Serafini and take your students on a memorable journey into literacy.

Serafini shows how you can help students learn to read so they want to.