When faced with a blank page in their readers' notebooks, students often fall back on what is familiar: summarizing. Despite our best efforts to model through comprehension strategies what good readers do, many students struggle to transfer this knowledge and make it their own when writing independently about books.
Über den Autor Elizabeth Hale
Elizabeth Hale is a literacy consultant working with schools and districts around the country and a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She previously taught at Emmanuel College as an instructor in the educational department and worked for nine years in the Boston Public Schools as a literacy coach and classroom teacher. Elizabeth is also the author of Crafting Writers, K-8 (2008).