Kinds Insight: Reconsidering How to Meet the Literacy Needs of All Students (Kids Insight Series) - Softcover

Kids InSight is a new book series that brings to the foreground stories about children and adolescents as the basis for K-12 teachers' instructional decisions. Kids InSight: Reconsidering How to Meet the Literacy Needs of All Students is the first book in the series, the foundation on which the future volumes will build. Author Deborah Dillon begins by explaining the goals of the Kids InSight series, then highlights the threads that will run throughout all books in the series. Next she presents the goals of the book: to encourage teachers to reflect on and reconsider their instruction, to change their focus to their students, to view their students' actions in light of new data, and to renew their teaching efforts. The chapters discuss in detail the different requirements of being an insightful teacher; report the author's experiences conducting research in two classrooms; and detail the interactions of the teachers and students in these classrooms, explaining what makes these teachers insightful.

Interspersed throughout this book and others in the Kids InSight series are Reflection Points, which ask the reader to reflect on his or her own practice, allowing for consideration of personal philosophies and strategies for teaching literacy.

This book and others in the Kids InSight series will challenge teachers to focus on students as individuals and as learners. When students are placed in the foreground, teachers are able to glean insights about who their students are, what they know, how they learn, and what can be done to support them.

Other books in the Kids InSight series are, Looking Through the Faraway End: Creating a Literature-Based Reading Curriculum With Second Graders, by Lee Galda, Shane Rayburn, and Lisa Cross Stanzi (ISBN: 0-87207-263-0), and "All the Stories That We Have": Adolescents' Insights About Literacy and Learning in Secondary Schools, by Elizabeth Birr Moje (ISBN: 0-87207-264-9).