Teaching Reading in the Middle School
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- Publisher:
- 2013
Summary
More than 670,000 middle school teachers (grades 6-8) are responsible for educating nearly 13 million students in public and private schools. Thousands more teachers join these ranks annually, especially in the South and West, where ethnic populations are ballooning. Teachers and administrators seek practical, time-efficient ways of teaching language arts to 21st-century adolescents in increasingly multicultural, technologically diverse, socially networked communities. They seek sound understanding, practical advice, and proven strategies in order to connect diverse literature to 21st-century societies while meeting state and professional standards like the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts. This book offers strategies and resources that work.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2013
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-4758-0533-8
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-4758-0535-2
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 224
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Foreword: Amazing Grace No access
- Preface: Getting to the Core of Language Arts Instruction No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- Introduction No access Pages 1 - 14
- Chapter One. Scoping Out the Year in Preview: Plan Now to Be Effective and Efficient No access Pages 15 - 36
- Chapter Two. Networking Socially at the Start of the School Year No access Pages 37 - 50
- Chapter Three. Unpacking the Story and Understanding the Genre No access Pages 51 - 74
- Chapter Four. Crossing into Novel Territory: Reading Longer Texts No access Pages 75 - 106
- Chapter Five. Teaching Classical Fiction: Where the Ghosts of the Past Speak Today No access Pages 107 - 126
- Chapter Six. Teaching Historical Fiction: Opening the Past Imaginatively No access Pages 127 - 146
- Chapter Seven. Taking T.I.M.E. to Teach Poetry No access Pages 147 - 172
- Chapter Eight. Reading, Writing, and Performing Drama: Playing It Right No access Pages 173 - 190
- Afterword: Bon Voyage—Acknowledge the Challenge and Maximize the Opportunity No access Pages 191 - 196
- Appendix: Teacher Resources No access Pages 197 - 206
- Bibliography No access Pages 207 - 209
- About the Author No access Pages 210 - 224





