Promoting literacy in grades 4-9
Subtitle: a handbook for teachers and administrators
By: edited by Karen D. Wood, Thomas S. Dickinson.
Contributors: Wood, Karen D.; Dickinson, Thomas S.
Publisher: Allyn and Bacon
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 453
Subjects: Language arts (Elementary) -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Language arts (Middle school) -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Literacy programs -- United States
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The role of the teacher in the literacy program; title: The role of the principal in the literacy program; title: The role of the literacy specialist; title: Settings for school literacy programs; title: Encouraging family involvement in the intermediate and middle grades; title: Building alliances, building community, building bridges through literacy; title: Standards in the middle : moving beyond the basics; title: Developmental tasks of early adolescence : the foundation of an effective literacy learning program; title: Motivation matters : fostering full access to literacy; title: "You want to read what?" Giving students a voice in their own literacy and in the literacy program; title: Students with learning disabilities and literacy issues; title: Exemplary schooling for intermediate and middle school students acquiring English; title: Language arts adaptations : fitting literacy to linguistically gifted learners; title: Interdisciplinary units : an introduction to integrated curriculum in the intermediate and middle school; title: Integrating language arts with the content areas; title: Helping struggling learners read and write; title: Using picture books with older children; title: Spelling in the middle; title: Big words for big kids : the morphology link to meaning and decoding; title: Literature circles, book clubs, and literature discussion groups : some talk about book talk; title: Technological literacy in the intermediate and middle grades; title: Visual literacy : some important considerations for tomorrow's classrooms; title: Promoting independent study strategies in the classrooms of the twenty-first century; title: Critical thinking and discussion; title: The enhanced concerns framework : a helpful heuristic for working with middle school writers; title: Literacy as performance : the power of creative drama in the classroom; title: Preparing intermediate and middle grades students to be document literate; title: Responding to research in grouping : flexible grouping in the middle grades; title: Literacy assessment : what should we use?