Teaching Critical Thinking: Using Seminars for 21st Century Literacy

by Laura Billings and Terry Roberts

Book Overview

Help students meet today's literacy demands with this new book from Terry Roberts and Laura Billings. The authors show how a seminar approach can lead students deeper into a text and improve their speaking, listening, and writing skills, as recommended by the Common Core State Standards.

Roberts and Billings provide easy-to-follow information on implementing Paideia Seminars, in which students discuss a text and ask open-ended questions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1596672080
• ISBN13: 9781596672086
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 10.0"