New 2005! Just Published! See how to use content area literature circles to help your students think about the world and connect with it.
Content Area Literature Circles:
Using Discussion for Learning Across the Curriculum
Holly Johnson, University of Cincinnati
Lauren Freedman, Western Michigan University
In this new guide the authors include lots of helpful information on making content area literature circles (CALCs) an important part of the classroom teaching and learning experience. They show you clearly what content area literature circles are, their benefits, and their structure. They then give you the steps you can use to implement CALCs into middle school classrooms and cover what types of materials will enhance both the level of discussion and the amount of learning achieved through CALCs. Three chapters focus on specific strategies for engaging students in CALCs. You also see the importance of question and problem posing along with critical literacy skills and explore various strategies you can use to assess CALCs. Throughout the book there are examples from real situations with middle-level students, plus instructional activities you can use to demonstrate to the class, learning activities for your students to try in their own small groups, self-evaluation ideas, and more
2005 Just Published Paperbound 224pp est. ISBN: 1-929024-88-3 Order #772 $33.95
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What you need to address literacy learning within an inquiry framework in your middle school classroom.
Inquiry, Literacy, and Learning in the Middle Grades
Lauren Freedman, Western Michigan University
Holly Johnson, Texas Tech University
Foreword by Kathy G. Short
This book speaks to teachers and their students — with text sections written by teachers and students — describing a myriad of classroom experiences with inquiry. It addresses literacy learning within an inquiry framework at the middle level and draws on the authors' past experiences as middle level teachers who used an inquiry framework with their students. Through student examples; photos of student work; stories of student concerns and processes at the various stages of inquiry; instructional activities, engagement, and invitations, and cognitive strategies for literacy development across the four major content areas (language arts, math, science, the social studies), it helps you develop more confident and competent literacy learners at the middle level. The emphasis is on literacy learning across the curriculum and there are invaluable assessment forms and processes, plus helpful appendices listing teacher resources, multiple materials for student use, and Web site addresses.
- Unique story boxes are included in which teachers and students share stories describing their work and concerns with particular inquiry and literacy processes included in the cycle.
- The authors re-envision the inquiry cycle, which explicitly connects the various inquiry processes along the cycle.
- The book considers how students may proceed through an inquiry cycle in differing ways and proposes that an inquiry framework is learning centered and allows students and teachers a voice.
2004 Paperbound 256pp. ISBN 1-929024-75-4 Order #458 $37.95
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