Paul Williams's List: Middle School Literacy

• The final section suggests ideas for engaging writers in peer editing,  self-editing, and revision to turn their drafts into finished pieces

• goals were to develop an integrated program using a variety of books and to help  the students develop an appreciation for literature and independence in reading.  Restrepo's belief was that students should study one genre of literature at a  time to widen their interests. She noted that books should not be considered in  isolation but as part of a larger section in literature
• One   of  the genres of literature that
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• INTEGRATING DRAMA

   

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• Karabas
• Karabas and Leinwein (1985) suggest that drama be integrated into middle school  education. Through drama, students can discover what is meant by being human.  Drama also spurs imagination, insight, reflection, and self-knowledge. Karabas  and Leinwein's objective in writing a unit on drama was to have students develop  the pleasure and skills in reading and interpreting drama, to acquaint students  with the dramatic tradition so they could critically evaluate current theater,  and to increase the students' insights in themselves.
• Success in integrating literature into middle school reading classrooms has been  achieved by the systematic study of different genres of literature (e.g.,  folktales, drama, poetry). Through a variety of activities, students can be  engaged in comparisons, contrasts, and other higher-level thinking skills.  Response journals in which students react to their reading by writing, provide  another avenue to promote reflection about the literature being read. Such  journals have the potential to actively involve students in linking their ideas  to those posed by the author, teacher, or other students

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• Teachers across the entire curriculum spectrum are beginning to realize that  they are responsible for producing learners who possess the literacy skills  needed for the 21st Century.
• Math teachers are developing their own classroom libraries
• Use pre-reading strategies to help students get the most from their math  books
• Word walls help students learn the language of math
• Content area vocabulary words can be posted on classroom walls helping students  learn to speak and understand the language of a specific discipline
• Read, Write, and speak about math

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• esearch shows that classroom libraries help students attain reading achievement
• Children learning to read need access to meaningful and personally interesting  books.
• By providing access to a rich classroom library, teachers promote greater  amounts of reading, increased reading frequency, and more diverse reading  experiences among their students, thus helping them to attain greater levels of  reading achievement.
• They are, in the broadest sense, the backbone of classroom activity
• The first function of a classroom library is to support reading and writing  instruction—in school and out.
• an effective classroom library provides a place for teachers to teach and  children to learn about books and book selection
• A good classroom library helps students locate books easily and gives them room  to get
• comfortable.
• Every good comprehensive reading program provides students daily time to read  independently. The classroom library is typically the resource that supports  children's daily independent reading of self-selected books that meet their  personal, recreational reading interests.

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