Shades of Meaning: Comprehension and Interpretation in Middle School

Shades of Meaning is the cornerstone to our literacy framework in our middle school. Once our students are on level in their fluency, the trickiest next step is how to build their ability to infer. What Donna Santman offers is a book that thoroughly builds a student's ability to "dig deeper". In our middle school we've developed most of our curriculum around this text in the sixth grade. The chapter "Finding Gray" has been a success in our classrooms for years. I highly recommend Shades of Meaning for any teacher who not only wants their students to be able to dig deeper into the text, but wants to create a student-centered classroom that promotes love of learning and love of inquiry. A practical, easy to navigage must have.