They are organized around teacher and student teams that facilitate collaboration and communication between teachers who share the same students, which, in turn, are supported by a leader within the school community. Classes are scheduled and designed to meet the needs of struggling readers. Faculties include trained reading professionals. Evidence that literacy is valued in these schools can be found in interesting and accessible materials, instructional methods, beliefs about literacy learning, school organization, and school culture. Effective middle grades literacy programs are student-centered.
Literacy is celebrated in an exemplary middle grades program, and everybody wins.
The language of teaching and learning. The New York Press. What works and why. A lot of talk about nothing. Structuring support for change in the middle years literacy program.