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She is an invited speaker at state, national, and international conferences and works with teachers in elementary, middle, and high schools across the US. Kylene has published numerous articles in state and national journals, served as editor of the national literacy journal, Voices from the Middle, and was the 2008-2009 President of the National Council of Teachers of English. She taught in the College of Education at the University of Houston, served as Senior Reading Researcher at the Comer School Development Program at Yale University, and most recently acted as the Senior Reading Advisor to Secondary Schools for the Reading and Writing Project at Teachers College. She is author of the best-selling When Kids Can't Read/What Teachers Can Do, co-editor (with Bob Probst and Linda Rief) of Adolescent Literacy: Turning Promise into Practice, and co-author (with Bob Probst) of Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading and Reading Nonfiction, Notice & Note Stances, Signposts, and Strategies all published by Heinemann. Kylene Beers, Ed.D., is a former middle school teacher who has turned her commitment to adolescent literacy and struggling readers into the major focus of her research, writing, speaking, and teaching. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. It should help them become the responsive, rigorous, independent readers we not only want students to be but know our democracy demands.Ī new Notice and Note Literature Log offers students practice finding the signposts-with over-the-shoulder coaching from Kylene and Bob. Notice and Note will help create attentive readers who look closely at a text, interpret it responsibly, and reflect on what it means in their lives.

offer 6 Notice and Note model lessons, including text selections and teaching tools, that help you introduce each signpost to your students.

provide 6 text-dependent anchor questions that help readers take note and read more closely.

identify 6 signposts that help readers understand and respond to character development, conflict, point of view, and theme.

examine the new emphasis on text-dependent questions, rigor, text complexity, and what it means to be literate in the 21st century.

In this timely and practical guide Kylene and Bob: In short, these close reading strategies will help your students to notice and note. Learning first to spot these signposts and then to question them, enables readers to explore the text, any text, finding evidence to support their interpretations.

In Notice and Note Kylene Beers and Bob Probst introduce 6 "signposts" that alert readers to significant moments in a work of literature and encourage students to read closely. The close reading strategies in Notice and Note will help you cultivate those critical reading habits that will make your students more attentive, thoughtful, independent readers."Īlso available: Notice & Note/Reading Nonfiction Signpost Student Bookmarks "Just as rigor does not reside in the barbell but in the act of lifting it, rigor in reading is not an attribute of a text but rather of a reader's behavior-engaged, observant, responsive, questioning, analytical.