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| Reading Improvement | 6 |
| Teacher Student Relationship | 6 |
| Middle Schools | 5 |
| Reading Instruction | 4 |
| Class Activities | 3 |
| Reading Strategies | 3 |
| Teacher Attitudes | 3 |
| Content Area Reading | 2 |
| Grade 7 | 2 |
| High Risk Students | 2 |
| Instructional Effectiveness | 2 |
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| Voices from the Middle | 6 |
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| Beal, Candy | 1 |
| Greenleaf, Cynthia | 1 |
| Jacobs, Carole | 1 |
| Jensen, Rita | 1 |
| Jordan, Marean | 1 |
| Mollineaux, Bill, Ed. | 1 |
| Pope, Carol | 1 |
| Vacca, Richard T. | 1 |
| Wilhelm, Jeff | 1 |
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| Journal Articles | 6 |
| Guides - Classroom - Teacher | 4 |
| Reports - Descriptive | 4 |
| Opinion Papers | 3 |
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Peer reviewedPope, Carol; Beal, Candy – Voices from the Middle, 1994
Describes the Power and Literacy for Disadvantaged Youth (PAL) project which includes more than 45 teachers from 20 different middle schools who are committed to work with at-risk students in a workshop atmosphere in their English language arts classrooms. Describes how each PAL teacher developed an implementation plan. Discusses what these…
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Junior High Schools, Middle School Students, Middle Schools
Peer reviewedJacobs, Carole – Voices from the Middle, 1994
Relates how one teacher restructured her classroom to use reading and writing workshops. Describes how three at-risk students in her classroom, in the course of the academic year, moved from being at risk of academic failure to being on the path to promise and success. (SR)
Descriptors: Grade 7, High Risk Students, Junior High Schools, Language Arts
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 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
