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Creating Independent Readers

Creating Independent Readers

Independent reading assignments do not make students independent readers. Here are ways you can foster students on the journey to being independent readers

The words "independent reading" should bring celebration, right? Somehow, a confluence of amazing events has occurred that has brought a student to a point in life where she is reading! However, indulge me on the...
Author: Amber Chandler
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Topics: Language Arts and Literacy
Tags: Reading
Literacy Tools Smooth the Ups and Downs

Literacy Tools Smooth the Ups and Downs

10 ways to develop middle schooler's social-emotional skills

Hanna's adoption was never a secret. It was a fact of life, like her black hair and her fear of spiders. She didn't give it a lot of thought until she turned 13. At the beginning of seventh grade, she desperately...
Author: Phyllis L. Fagell
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Topics: Young Adolescent Development
Tags: ReadingSocial Emotional Learning
During Reading Response: Double-Entry Journals

During Reading Response: Double-Entry Journals

This technique encourages students to read closely and discover and record text evidence

Much of the writing we assign students is public writing: writing to communicate with others. Writing-to-learn is personal writing, writing that helps students increase comprehension of texts in all disciplines. In a...
Author: Lesley Roessing
Number of views (8185)/Comments (0)/
Topics: Language Arts and Literacy
Tags: ReadingLiteracy
Reader Response in All Disciplines

Reader Response in All Disciplines

Scaffolding writing-to-learn by teaching reader response strategies before, during, and after reading

Much of the writing we assign our students is public writing—writing to communicate with others. Writing-to-learn is personal writing, writing that helps students increase their comprehension of texts in all...
Author: Lesley Roessing
Number of views (7094)/Comments (0)/
Topics: Language Arts and Literacy
Tags: ReadingWritingLiteracy

Reader Response in All Disciplines

Much of the writing we assign our students is public writing—writing to communicate with others. Writing-to-learn is personal writing, writing that helps students increase their comprehension of texts in all...
Author: Lesley Roessing
Number of views (8561)/Comments (0)/
Topics: Language Arts and LiteracyTeaching
Tags: ReadingLiteracy

Before-Reading Preview Response

Much of the writing we assign our students is public writing—writing to communicate with others. Writing-to-learn is personal writing—writing that helps students increase their comprehension of texts in...
Author: Lesley Roessing
Number of views (12025)/Comments (0)/
Topics: Language Arts and Literacy
Tags: Reading
Using Graphic Novels to Open the Gateway for Struggling Readers

Using Graphic Novels to Open the Gateway for Struggling Readers

The benefits of using graphic novels in the social studies classroom

The standards in current education reform movements stress the importance of strengthening students' content-area literacy skills. This means that social studies teachers must draw on powerful texts. The problem is...
Author: Jeremiah Clabough
Number of views (11783)/Comments (0)/
Topics: Language Arts and LiteracyTeaching
Tags: Student EngagementReadingSocial Studies
From Reluctant Reader to Ravenous Reader

From Reluctant Reader to Ravenous Reader

How to develop lifelong readers by using choice as a motivator.

I wake up and roll out of bed. What shall I eat? Cereal? Bagel? Breakfast bar? I have choices. No one tells me what to eat; I eat what I want and what I feel I need—limited only by what is available. I go to my...
Author: Lesley Roessing
Number of views (13214)/Comments (0)/
Topics: Language Arts and Literacy
Tags: Reading

Teaching Historical Literacy in the Middle Grades

Research Summary

As students enter the middle grades, they often encounter curricula that grow more challenging each year. This is especially the case in social studies when students experience primary documents and complex texts,...
Author: Stephanie M. Bennett, Jennifer Stepp-Sanders
Number of views (35123)/Comments (1)/
Topics: Language Arts and LiteracyResearch
Tags: ReadingSocial StudiesLiteracyResearch Summary
Effective Instructional Practices for Diverse Learners

Effective Instructional Practices for Diverse Learners

Using popular culture resources to engage learners.

Middle level teachers can make learning engaging by using popular culture texts. When faced with the challenge of engaging students, many teachers often struggle to create relevant learning experiences while also...
Author: Crystal LaVoulle
Number of views (29365)/Comments (3)/
Topics: Diversity and Social EquityTeaching
Tags: ReadingInterdisciplinary TeachingLiteracyStudent Achievement
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