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Harvey "Smokey" Daniels

Speaking Topics

• Content-Area Reading and Writing
• Introduction to Inquiry Circles: Comprehension and Collaboration Across the Curriculum
• Best Practice and the Common Core: Bringing Standards to Life in the Classroom
• Literature Circles 2.0: New Structures for Student-Led Reading Discussions
• Teaching the Social Skills of Classroom Collaboration: Practical Steps to Friendliness, Support, and Responsibility
• Texts and Lessons for Fiction and Nonfiction
• Teaching with Images

Speaker Bio

Harvey "Smokey" Daniels has been a city and suburban classroom teacher and a college professor, and now works as a national consultant and author on literacy education. In language arts, Smokey is known for his pioneering work on student book clubs, as recounted in Literature Circles: Voice and Choice in Book Clubs and Reading Groups, and Minilessons for Literature Circles. Smokey has recently coauthored four bestselling books on content-area literacy: Texts and Lessons for Content-Area Reading; Comprehension & Collaboration; Subjects Matter, and Content-Area Writing. He is also coauthor of the new Best Practice, Fourth Edition and The Best Practice Video Companion as well as editor of Comprehension Going Forward. 

Smokey works with elementary and secondary teachers throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, offering demonstration lessons, workshops, and consulting, with a special focus on creating, sustaining, and renewing student-centered inquiries and discussions of all kinds. Smokey shows colleagues how to simultaneously build students' reading strategies, balance their reading diets, and strengthen the social skills they need to become genuine lifelong readers.

» Listen to an interview with Harvey "Smokey" Daniels on Education Talk Radio—12/19/2011 (41:13)

Grades: K - 12