Learning for Keeps: Teaching the Strategies Essential for Creating Independent Learners

How can teachers help students develop the literacy and problem-solving skills critical to becoming independent learners ready to tackle not only their immediate academic challenges but also the real-world problems they will face as adults? Asking students to memorize and recite facts isn t the answer. Instead, says Rhoda Koenig, educators must deliberately cultivate thinking skills and build the strategies that empower students to boost their own learning--for keeps.
In this highly practical book, Koenig combines explicit strategy lessons and coaching techniques that prepare teachers to skate alongside learners, give feedback, support them when they stumble, and gradually let go.

Washington Irving - Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. (level 1)Washington Irving

Rip Van Winkle sets off into Catskill mountains. There he falls into a deep sleep and when he awakes, twenty years have passed. In the legend of Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane view for the affection of Katrina Van Tassel. But his rival plays a trick on him and Ichabod runs away leaving behind him the legend of the Headless Horseman.

Oscar Wilde - The Happy Prince and The Selfish Giant. (level 1)Oscar Wilde

The Happy Prince is the unforgettable story of the touching friendship between the golden statue of the Happy Prince and a little swallow.
The enchanted garden of The selfish Giant is the perfect place for children to play, until the Giant decides to keep it all for himself! Then something very strange happens to his garden……

Robinson Crusoe. (level 6)

When the captain tells Robinson, "Young man, you should never go to sea again… God has shown you that the sea is not for you." Robinson ignores his advice and goes to sea again, this time with terrible consequences. He is forced into slavery and escapes, but he is then shipwrecked on a desert island where he manages to survive through resourcefulness and luck.

Gina D.B. Clemen - Davy Crockett. (level 1)by Gina D.B. Clemen

This is the true story of a brave, adventurous man, a real American hero, who has become a legend. Davy loved danger, justice and freedom. He was the true American free spirit of the 1800s who help to build America.