Burkins, Jan Miller

In their follow-up to Reading Wellness, Jan Burkins and Kim Yaris explore how some traditional scaffolding practices may actually rob students of important learning opportunities and independence. Who s Doing the Work? suggests ways to make small but powerful adjustments to instruction that hold students accountable for their own learning.

Addresses misunderstandings about guided reading instruction, discussing the role of the teacher, instructional reading level, balanced instruction, text gradients, integrated processing, and assessment, with twenty-seven strategies for working through problems.