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Curriculum Integration: Meaningful Learning Based on Students' Questions
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Brown, Dave F. – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2011
Curriculum integration is defined as students choosing topics to study based on their questions. Several middle schools throughout the United States offer students the opportunity to develop the curriculum during the year based on their questions about themselves and about the world. The author provides the rationale, the developmental reasons…
Descriptors: Integrated Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Middle School Students, Student Centered Curriculum
Research Connections: The San Diego Striving Readers' Project: Building Academic Success for Adolescent Readers
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McDonald, Trevor; Thornley, Christina; Staley, Rosemary; Moore, David W. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2009
This Research Connections column describes the background to and the research base for the San Diego Unified School Districts' federally funded Striving Readers Project. The curriculum for the project was developed out of a longitudinal study into the literacy experiences of secondary students in New Zealand and from exploratory work in San Diego…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Theory Practice Relationship, Reading Improvement, Reading Programs
California Right to Read Program 1974-75, Brief Description.
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California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Right to Read Unit. – 1974
The California Right to Read program is for schools interested in changing or revising their reading programs. Right to Read offers services and materials designed to guide schools through program planning. This approach is based on the philosophy that California Right to Read can most effectively serve a school by working with its staff to plan…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Program Development, Reading, Reading Improvement
56th Yearbook of the National Reading Conference (Los Angeles, California, November 29-December 2, 2006)
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Rowe, Deborah Wells, Ed.; Jimenez, Robert T., Ed.; Compton, Donald L., Ed.; Dickinson, David K., Ed.; Kim, Youb, Ed.; Leander, Kevin M., Ed.; Risko, Victoria J., Ed. – National Reading Conference, 2007
This publication offers the 56th Yearbook of the National Reading Conference (NRC). This Yearbook begins with a preface and presents profiles of three awardees, Michael C. McKenna, Douglas K. Hartman, and Michael Kamil. Included in this Yearbook are the following papers: (1) What's It All About? Literacy Research and Civic Responsibility (Victoria…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Curriculum Development, Literacy, Popular Culture