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Download full textPelttari, Carole – Language and Literacy Spectrum, 2012
While conducting a content analysis of award-winning, middle school fiction, I indentified a number of episodes and characters that might be used as models for students' writing. Research suggests that teachers can motivate students (Bruning & Horn, 2000; Codling, Gambrell, Kennedy, Palmer, & Graham, 1996) to respond to character-writers (Van…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Fiction, Awards, Reading Lists
Michaels, Lisa R. – Language and Literacy Spectrum, 2012
A balanced literacy program provides students with opportunities to interact with texts from a variety of genres. The dawn of the New York State Common Core Learning Standards has paved a natural gateway for students and teachers to regularly engage in reading, discussing, and writing nonfiction. This shift in the standards has inspired educators…
Descriptors: Reading Assignments, Literary Genres, Nonfiction, Context Effect
Nichols, Maura – Language and Literacy Spectrum, 2012
The implementation of the Common Core Standards has just begun and these standards will impact a generation that communicates with technology more than anything else. Texting, cell phones, Facebook, YouTube, Skype, etc. are the ways they speak with their friends and the world. The Common Core Standards recognize this. According to the Common Core…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Alignment (Education), Core Curriculum, State Standards
