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Developing Students' Textual Intelligence through Grammar.
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Burke, Jim – Voices from the Middle, 2001
Discusses "textual intelligence": knowledge of how texts of all kinds work. Describes how the author uses grammar in his classroom to help students understand how to read and write better and how to think with greater clarity. Describes activities used before and after students read or write. Argues that grammar is a process that helps students…
Descriptors: Class Activities, English Instruction, Grammar, Language Arts
Thank You, Mrs. Bean: Seeking Balance for Students Who Struggle as Readers.
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Vacca, 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
"Amidst Familial Gatherings": Reading Apprenticeship in a Middle School Classroom.
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Jordan, 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
Getting Kids into the Reading Game: You Gotta Know the Rules.
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Wilhelm, 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
Improving Reading Comprehension by Using Media Literacy Activities.
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Hobbs, 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
Expository Text and Middle School Students: Some Lessons Learned.
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Street, Chris – Voices from the Middle, 2002
Presents the "Structured Reading Lesson" as one simple way to structure reading activities so that the before, during, and after phases of the reading experience are all touched upon. Considers how reading strategies that students have developed to comprehend fictional narratives do not always help them with textbooks. Presents…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Fiction, Middle Schools, Nonfiction