Every Minute Matters [Grades K-5]

Guide to Literacy-Rich Experiences Acknowledgments Introduction: So Much to Do, So Little Time Activity Walkthrough PART ONE: Thinking Through Instructional Time Time Audits: Why and How Maximize Your Routines and Transition Times Think Flexibly PART TWO: Literacy-Rich Experiences at Your Fingertips Rotate Your Writing Reader's Notebook Tours Library Love Be a Book Matchmaker "I Wonder" Writing Beach Ball Bonanza Laughing Through Rereadings Read, Record, Reflect Book Tasting Go Fish Concentration Lining Up With Literacy I Spy Category Chain Ghost Writing Build a Word Classroom Charades Telephone Would You Rather? Hink Pinks Human Hungry Hippos Spelling Connect Four Vocabulary Vase Book Pass Parking Lot Sink or Spell Headbands Twister Letter Formation Sight Word Search Letter Tile Table Tower Tumble Checkers A to Z About Sticky Sort Reading Graffiti Jot Lot Wordoodle Wordo Character Cards Categories Character Chats Blackout Poetry Appendix References Index

Molly Ness is an associate professor at Fordham University's Graduate School of Education. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Johns Hopkins University, and earned her PhD in Reading Education from the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on reading comprehension instruction, the instructional decisions and beliefs of preservice and inservice teachers, and the assessment and diagnosis of struggling readers. A former Teach For America corps member, she is an experienced classroom teacher. She is the author of Lessons to Learn: Voices from the Front Lines of Teach For America (Routledge Falmer, 2004). Her research has been published in national and international peer-reviewed journals including The Reading Teacher, Educational Leadership, Reading Horizons, Journal of Reading Education, Reading Psychology, and Journal of Research in Childhood Education. She is an active member of the following professional organizations: Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers (ALER), National Council of the Teachers of English (NCTE), Literacy Research Association (LRA), International Reading Association (IRA), Professors of Reading Teacher Educators, Organization of Teacher Educators in Reading, and Phi Delta Kappa. Her book, The Question is the Answer, was published in 2015 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.