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Peer reviewedFord, Kim, Ed. – Voices from the Middle, 2001
Offers brief descriptions, written by middle schoolers, of 12 books for adolescents, novels in which children and young people endure hardship and struggle, and triumph over the odds. (SR)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Books, Coping, Reading Material Selection
Peer reviewedVacca, Richard T. – Voices from the Middle, 2001
Discusses what it means to struggle as a reader, lacking competence with reading strategies and lacking confidence in oneself to make meaning with texts. Argues that balance can be found in adolescent reading programs by seeking equilibrium between the visible and invisible aspects of instruction in the development and use of reading strategies.…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Instructional Effectiveness, Middle Schools, Reading Difficulties
Peer reviewedJordan, Marean; Jensen, Rita; Greenleaf, Cynthia – Voices from the Middle, 2001
Describes Reading Apprenticeship, an approach to adolescent reading improvement in which teachers apprentice students into the strategies skilled readers use. Demonstrates the program at work in one seventh and eighth grade classroom. Discusses four key dimensions of classroom life: social (building community); personal (connecting to reading);…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Grade 7, Grade 8
Peer reviewedWilhelm, Jeff – Voices from the Middle, 2001
Argues that schools and teachers underestimate the demands that particular texts place on readers, especially as students reach middle school. Describes how the author uses think-alouds as one particular technique to actively give contextualized strategic knowledge over to students. Shows how this helps readers overcome their struggles to develop…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Educational Practices, Educational Principles
Peer reviewedIrvin, Judith L. – Voices from the Middle, 2001
Discusses research, and strategies and activities for vocabulary development, grouped into five areas: knowing words, morphology, the use of context, the role of definitions in understanding words, and the size and growth of vocabulary. Outlines questions for metalinguistic awareness that can help engage students in word learning. Offers 10…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Middle Schools, Reading Difficulties, Reading Improvement
Peer reviewedHobbs, Renee – Voices from the Middle, 2001
Argues that media literacy activities in the English language arts classroom can promote the strategies of reflective thinking, self-monitoring, close observation, and visualization. Shows how one seventh-grade teacher develops students' understanding of character development by using a film excerpt, a graphic organizer for developing…
Descriptors: Characterization, Class Activities, Graphic Organizers, Instructional Effectiveness
Peer reviewedDavis, Mary; Lyons, Shirley – Voices from the Middle, 2001
Describes a home reading intervention program for students with real reading difficulties, which has turned many students on to reading, by giving students book bags with three books (at different levels) in each bag for home reading. Discusses developing parent support, outlines contents of 30 book bags, and notes challenges and successes of the…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Middle Schools, Program Descriptions, Reading Attitudes
Peer reviewedMyers, Walter Dean – Voices from the Middle, 2001
Describes how the author's life has been one long adventure with language, and how the distinction between reading and writing blurs into a continuum of words, images, and ideas. Describes his first ventures towards reading, which began by engaging in the spoken word with his mother. Describes his writing processes, and the six-part story form he…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Authors, Books, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedPatterson, Nancy, Ed.; Pipkin, Gloria, Ed. – Voices from the Middle, 2001
Argues that computer technology can help to engage struggling readers in meaningful transactions with text. Lists and describes seven web sites that will captivate reluctant readers. Notes three web sites that send students on "WebQuests" to transact with text in order to build knowledge. Discusses other ways to engage students in text via…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Electronic Text, English Instruction, Language Arts
Peer reviewedVan Horn, Leigh, Ed. – Voices from the Middle, 2001
Discusses six books intended to help teachers reach struggling readers: books that outline strategy instruction, offer a wealth of information, and show how to create instructional sequences and activities that will develop and enhance the conceptual, procedural, and textual knowledge of students. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Reading Difficulties
Peer reviewedLesesne, Teri, Ed. – Voices from the Middle, 2001
Offers brief descriptions of 12 recently published books of young adult literature that offer voices from history, real kids with real problems, and whispers from the future. Discusses two simple guidelines for recommending books to students, and notes three suitable adult books as well as three resources for locating adult books that will be of…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Annotated Bibliographies, Books, Fiction
Peer reviewedFord, Kim, Ed. – Voices from the Middle, 2001
Offers brief descriptions of 12 recently and not-so-recently published books for young adults, that speak to a wide range of interests at a variety of reading levels, and that could be "just the ticket" to help a reluctant reader bond with books. (SR)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Annotated Bibliographies, Books, Fiction
Peer reviewedMollineaux, Bill, Ed. – Voices from the Middle, 2001
Offers numerous suggestions for dealing with and meeting needs of reluctant readers. Discusses the issue of parental concern over children reading a wide selection of books for young adults. Includes a letter to parents both informing them of the wide reading expected of their children and requesting their permission to sign out books from the…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Books, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Reading Attitudes
Peer reviewedVoices from the Middle, 2001
Presents 54 thank you letters written by authors (of children's literature, young adult literature, and professional texts) to classroom teachers, from the shadow of the events of September 11th, 2001, offering their thanks for teachers' efforts to face those events with children, offering their personal thoughts about the events, or their…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Authors, Childrens Literature, Coping
Peer reviewedAbrahamson, Richard F. – Voices from the Middle, 2001
Describes how the author helps his students understand the power of books and the impossibility of predicting what book will profoundly affect a person, by asking two questions: "What book made the biggest difference in your life?" and "What was that difference?" Describes the profound impact on the author's life of John…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Coping, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
