Reviews

From Striving to Thriving: How to Grow Confident, Capable Readers by Annie Ward, Stephanie Harvey

amytalbert's review

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

This book changed how I think about the students I work work with in regards to the importance of their independent reading lives, access to books of interest and higher quality, and classroom libraries. 

I highly recommend this book for all educators for the sake of improving the lives of our striving readers. 

krismarley's review

5.0

Teachers & Librarians: move this to the top of your professional reading list.

skundrik87's review

3.0

Maybe have physical artifacts in the library to accompany displays on certain topics?

lizjames's review

5.0

I cannot express how much I love this book. So many reading books I read are on how to teach reading skills and strategies and it gets old. This wasn’t that at all! This was mostly how to get students reading books they are interested in, how to get them talking about books, how to up the volume of books students are reading, etc. I found it so beneficial! With not really knowing how teaching is going to look this next school year and feeling very discouraged, this book gave me a lot of great ideas that I can still do with social distancing and elearning!

kerrin's review

5.0

Inspirational. Packed with research on reading & well-organized, with tons of practical ideas.

mrsbennettreads's review against another edition

5.0

This book is full of helpful strategies for encouraging striving readers in classrooms anywhere from grades 4-10. It contains helpful guides for reading conferences, kidwatching and reading assessment, book matching, and encouraging students to talk about their reading.