Summer 2025      Volume 53, Number 3

Professional Development: Teacher Conversations on Comprehension, Critical Thinking,
and Coaching While Enjoying a Nice Summer Day
By Sophie Degener, Adelfio Garcia, Dora M. Guzmán, and Ivy Sitkoski

Document: Column  

Introductory Paragraph:  Summer is here, and we have time to enjoy summer gatherings with families, friends, and professional educators. What a good excuse to collide conversations about teaching and learning with delicious food and an icy summer drink. This IRCJ issue will make the conversation more enjoyable because three ideas are coalescing to make us deepen our comprehension knowledge, think critically about books, and coach each other. In this column, we bring you four books that will elevate your learning in these three areas. The first book review is of authors David and Meredith Liben’s Know Better, Do Better: Comprehension; this book offers practical comprehension strategies. Our second review is of Marilyn Pryle’s 5 Questions for Any Text: Critical Reading in the Age of Disinformation. It provides five simple questions readers use when reading any text. Our third review is of Doris Walker-Dalhouse and Victoria Risko’s Equitable Literacy Instruction for Students in Poverty, a resource about equitable literacy instruction for students in schools in poverty areas; and our fourth review is of John Hattie and Klaus Zierer’s 10 Mindframes for Visible Learning: Teaching for Success. This resource allows readers to reflect and redirect their own teaching and learning mindframes. All of these are excellent resources, so let’s pour our summer drinks and converse away.

DOI:  https://doi.org/10.33600/IRCJ.53.3.2025.49

Page Numbers:   49-53