Bøger af Cris Tovani

Cris Tovani has spent her career figuring out how to entice challenging students back into the process of learning. In Why Do I Have to Read This? she shares her best secrets, lessons learned from big fails, and her most effective literacy and planning strategies that hook these hard to get learners.

In So What Do They Really Know? Cris Tovani explores the complex issue of monitoring, assessing, and grading students' thinking and performance with fairness and fidelity. Like all teachers, Tovani struggles to balance her student-centred instruction with school system mandates. Her recommendations are realistic and practical; she understands that what isn't manageable isn't sustainable.

Shows how teachers can help adolescents develop reading comprehension skills. This book features anecdotes about real pupils with real universal problems and how these problems can be solved, and an explanation of theories of comprehension instruction and how they might be adapted for use with adolescents.