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| Voices from the Middle | 5 |
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| Greenleaf, Cynthia | 1 |
| Hobbs, Renee | 1 |
| Irvin, Judith L. | 1 |
| Jensen, Rita | 1 |
| Jordan, Marean | 1 |
| Vacca, Richard T. | 1 |
| Wilhelm, Jeff | 1 |
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| Guides - Classroom - Teacher | 5 |
| Journal Articles | 5 |
| Reports - Descriptive | 2 |
| Opinion Papers | 1 |
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Peer reviewedIrvin, Judith L. – Voices from the Middle, 2001
Discusses research, and strategies and activities for vocabulary development, grouped into five areas: knowing words, morphology, the use of context, the role of definitions in understanding words, and the size and growth of vocabulary. Outlines questions for metalinguistic awareness that can help engage students in word learning. Offers 10…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Middle Schools, Reading Difficulties, Reading Improvement
Peer reviewedVacca, Richard T. – Voices from the Middle, 2001
Discusses what it means to struggle as a reader, lacking competence with reading strategies and lacking confidence in oneself to make meaning with texts. Argues that balance can be found in adolescent reading programs by seeking equilibrium between the visible and invisible aspects of instruction in the development and use of reading strategies.…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Instructional Effectiveness, Middle Schools, Reading Difficulties
Peer reviewedJordan, Marean; Jensen, Rita; Greenleaf, Cynthia – Voices from the Middle, 2001
Describes Reading Apprenticeship, an approach to adolescent reading improvement in which teachers apprentice students into the strategies skilled readers use. Demonstrates the program at work in one seventh and eighth grade classroom. Discusses four key dimensions of classroom life: social (building community); personal (connecting to reading);…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Grade 7, Grade 8
Peer reviewedHobbs, Renee – Voices from the Middle, 2001
Argues that media literacy activities in the English language arts classroom can promote the strategies of reflective thinking, self-monitoring, close observation, and visualization. Shows how one seventh-grade teacher develops students' understanding of character development by using a film excerpt, a graphic organizer for developing…
Descriptors: Characterization, Class Activities, Graphic Organizers, Instructional Effectiveness
Peer reviewedWilhelm, Jeff – Voices from the Middle, 2001
Argues that schools and teachers underestimate the demands that particular texts place on readers, especially as students reach middle school. Describes how the author uses think-alouds as one particular technique to actively give contextualized strategic knowledge over to students. Shows how this helps readers overcome their struggles to develop…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Educational Practices, Educational Principles
