Janet Allen (1) (1950–)

Flip charts are created to condense teaching or learning ideas quickly on either one or two facing pages. Allen, the widely known reading expert provides both explanation flip chart pages but also reproducible worksheets that provide techniques to build understanding as students read. Among the techniques include: knowledge chat, point-of-view guide, double- and triple-entry journals, PQ4R, Writing to Learn, and reasoning guide. Such guides or teaching tips for reading can be combined with the Koeschlin/Zwaan Building Info Smarts from the same publisher to stimulate ideas for attacking various problems that collaborators are trying to solve. As such, they can stimulate creativity. Thus, we recommend such professional tools to be on a handy shelf where teachers and teacher librarians plan. It is essential to have a bag of tested teaching and learning tricks as the basis of a stimulating collaboration.… (mehr)