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Cox, Carole – SAGE Publications (CA), 2011
Grounded in theory and best-practices research, this practical text provides teachers with 40 strategies for using fiction and non-fiction trade books to teach in five key content areas: language arts and reading, social studies, mathematics, science, and the arts. Each strategy provides everything a teacher needs to get started: a classroom…
Descriptors: Fiction, Nonfiction, Books, Content Area Reading
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Sandholtz, Judith Haymore; Sandholtz, Sarah Haymore – New Educator, 2010
This paper stems from a classroom discussion in which one author, a sixth-grade student in that classroom, contended that boys only read books about boys and proposed that the teacher change the situation by assigning books with both male and female main characters. The boys who responded emphatically denied the girl's claim, and the teacher later…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Student Attitudes, Gender Issues, Gender Differences
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Liang, Lauren Aimonette – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2011
Teaching narrative text selections is an important part of the middle grades English curriculum. As middle grades educators search for ways to best support their students' reading, it is important to consider carefully the effects of various approaches to teaching literature. This study focused on the two most popular approaches to teaching…
Descriptors: English Curriculum, Reader Response, Literary Genres, Grade 6