Roberts, Kate

Offers a practical framework for creating units that join both teaching methods--whole-class novels and independent reading--together and helps identify the skills students need to learn, choose whole-class texts that will be most relevant, map out the timing of a unit, meet individual needs while teaching whole novels, guide students to choice books and book clubs that build on the skills being taught, and more.

Provides educators with visual teaching tools to help students think more strategically about reading as a way of maximizing the concepts of self-sufficiency and do-it-yourself learning.