Stephanie Harvey

The American Revolution and Constitution: Short Nonfiction for American History Stephanie Harvey

Publisher Marketing:52 short nonfiction texts for American History (1750-1800) with 10 new lessons for content literacy "We turn information into knowledge by thinking about it. These texts support students in using the Toolkit's comprehension and thinking strategies as tools to acquire and actively use knowledge in history. -Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis To support cross-curricular strategy instruction and close reading for information, Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis have expanded their Toolkit Texts series to include a library of short nonfiction for American history with 10 all-new Toolkit lessons. Building on selections from popular children's magazines as well as original articles, these engaging, age-appropriate texts will keep your active literacy classroom awash in historical resources that depict the controversies, issues, and dramas that shaped historical events, including the exploits of lesser-known individuals. To help students unpack the texts and apply their new learning, Steph and Anne offer 10 lessons for content literacy-reading for content across the disciplines-and disciplinary literacy-constructing discipline-specific knowledge. These 10 lessons teach students to use reading and thinking strategies as tools to acquire and use knowledge in history, and include follow-up steps for further research and small-group projects. In addition to the texts and lessons, each book in this series offers primary source documents, bibliographies, web sites, and ideas for online investigations that foster expected research skills and practices. A digital companion resource provides all of the reproducible texts, plus primary source documents and an image bank in a full-color digital format that is ideal for projecting and group analysis. Learn more about Steph Harvey and Anne Goudvis' Comprehension Toolkit series at ComprehensionToolkit.com Contributor Bio:  Harvey, Stephanie Stephanie Harvey has spent her career teaching and learning about reading and writing. An elementary and special ed teacher for fifteen years, she now works as a staff developer and educational consultant. Insatiably curious about student thinking, she is a teacher first and foremost and continues to work in schools on a regular basis savoring any time spent with kids. The coauthor of the Heinemann titles Comprehension Going Forward and Comprehension & Collaboration as well as the author of Nonfiction Matters and Strategies That Work, the latter coauthored by Anne Goudvis, Stephanie works with educators, schools and districts to implement progressive literacy practices. She has created a number of video series that showcase thoughtful literacy practice. Her most classroom materials with firstHand include The Comprehension Toolkit, the Primary Comprehension Toolkit, and Comprehension Interventions. Created along with Anne Goudvis, they form an intensive resource for comprehension instruction and active literacy across the day and throughout the year. Listen to an interview with Stephanie Harvey on Education Talk Radio - 2/29/2012 (30:35) Contributor Bio:  Goudvis, Anne Anne Goudvis is the coauthor the Heinemann title Comprehension Going Forward and of Strategies that Work (with Stephanie Harvey). She and Steph also created best-selling classroom materials through firstHand: The Comprehension Toolkit; The Primary Comprehension Toolkit; and Comprehension Interventions. Anne has been a classroom teacher, staff developer, and university instructor. For the past fifteen years she has worked as a staff developer with the Denver-based Public Education and Business Coalition and currently does staff development in schools around the country. Recent interests include working in schools with culturally and linguistically diverse students and integrating reading comprehension instruction with content area topics in social studies and science.