Powerful Thinking: Engaging readers, building knowledge, and nudging learning in elementary classrooms

Adrienne Gear

Mar 2024 · Pembroke Publishers Limited

About this eBook

An inspiring book to help teachers shift their beliefs and “stretch” their thinking around reading comprehension, literacy instruction, and content-area learning. Using the key concepts and strategies introduced in her ground-breaking book, Reading Power, Adrienne Gear shows teachers practical ways to create a “culture of thinking” that can be integrated into all areas of learning. Using knowledge-rich texts as tools, Adrienne shares how read-alouds can be used in content areas to support literacy skills and build knowledge. This timely book offers classroom-tested lessons and anchor books to create a content-rich learning environment that helps strengthen student learning and knowledge-building.

About the author

Adrienne Gear is a teacher, author, and workshop presenter. Adrienne has more than 25 years of elementary classroom experience and is passionate about literacy, learning, and children’s literature. The author of 8 professional books, Adrienne is an engaging, sought-after speaker whose work is widely used in classrooms across North America, as well as in Australia, China, the UK, and Sweden. She lives in British Columbia with her husband and their two sons.