Everyday Habits that Grow Successful Readers

Nurture Persistent, Resilient Readers

What are the habits of readers with grit—with persistence and resilience? Can we model these habits and even teach with grit? Debbie Miller and Sam Bennett share practices and structures that help students meet reading standards by looking beyond one school year and toward a lifetime of strong reading habits and academic success.

Course Objectives

• Describe habits that help kids persevere with their reading
• Describe habits of teachers who persevere through instructional difficulty
• Organize learning time to intentionally increase student resilience
• Explore the impact of the use of learning targets on student learning habits
• Analyze how teacher talk influences readers' perseverance
• Discover ways to structure a physical environment to foster perseverance
• Observe how teacher risk-taking models perseverance and impacts learning

Credit/CEUs:

On completion of this course, you will be awarded a certificate for 30 contact hours, or 3 CEUs.

This is an On-Demand Course presented by Heinemann Online PD. Course access is 365 days from the date it is activated.

Contents

Sessions for Kids with Grit

• Make Grit a Habit
• What Do Kids Need?
• Assess for Grit
• The Importance of Teacher Talk and Conversation
• Design for Grit
• How Teacher Perseverance Impacts Student Learning

Each session requires approximately one hour to complete, with additional opportunities to read and reflect offline as well as to practice with students.