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Peer reviewedMcInnes, Michele – Voices from the Middle, 1995
Describes episodes of humor in a middle school classroom. (SR)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Humor, Interpersonal Communication, Junior High Schools
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 reviewedSmith, Virginia – Voices from the Middle, 1994
Describes how one teacher worked with a learning-disabled sixth grader, who benefited from the opportunity to write about what he knew and cared about. (SR)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Grade 6, High Risk Students, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedCoty, Sue – Voices from the Middle, 1994
Offers an account of the changes one teacher observed in her reading/writing workshop in a middle school classroom when she and her students took the time to focus on ways of talking to one another, building their speaking and listening skills. (SR)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Skills, Grade 7, High Risk Students
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 reviewedParker-Webster, Joan; Van Horn, Leigh – Voices from the Middle, 2000
Describes how two different middle school teachers transformed the study of vocabulary in their classrooms by engaging students' interest in words, moving the study of vocabulary into students' worlds through theatre and through word tickets and a student-created museum. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Junior High Schools, Language Attitudes, Middle Schools
Peer reviewedPhillips, Donna K. – Voices from the Middle, 1997
Records the musings of a teacher preparing to teach a course on reading and writing in the content area to preservice secondary teachers. Notes that the teacher will trust her students to come with stories, questions, passion, and curiosity, and trust them to discover the power of literacy and to find its role in their future classrooms over time.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Imagination, Language Arts
Peer reviewedGullingsrud, Miles – Voices from the Middle, 1998
Discusses how a teacher of sixth- and seventh-grade primarily Mexican immigrants: (1) models being a second-language learner by working at Spanish; (2) provides an enjoyable school experience; (3) learns about students' culture and gives it respect; (4) seeks a detailed picture of where each English learner is academically; and (5) cultivates a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English Instruction, Grade 6, Grade 7
Peer reviewedNg, Jennifer – Voices from the Middle, 1998
Describes the author's experiences straddling a Chinese home culture and an American school culture throughout most of her life. Ponders how to, as a future teacher, support the experiences of individual students, be aware of cultural assumptions, and reward students for what they already know. (SR)
Descriptors: Chinese Americans, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Pluralism, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedBarbieri, Maureen – Voices from the Middle, 1998
Describes how the author used writers' notebooks with her students (grades 6-8), all Chinese immigrants, to find and express their memories and dreams, to find meaning in their experiences of change and loss; develop voice and a sense of audience; develop fluency in English; and find a growing sense of control over their new language and their new…
Descriptors: Chinese Americans, English (Second Language), Immigrants, Intermediate Grades
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
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
