reading (middle school)

A collection of essays that discuss what middle school students like to read, what their reading level is, how they react when they can't read, what teachers can do to help them enjoy reading, and other related topics.

Describes a learning-centered approach to reading designed to help students of all abilities meet the demands of reading higher-level texts as they progress through school.

Examines how teachers can improving literacy in middle school and high school students; discussing student motivation, engagement, and achievement; integrating literacy across the curriculum; interventions for struggling readers and writers; and support from the school, parents, community, and district; and describing a school wide action plan.

Reproducible research-based strategies, activities, and discussion-based instruction designed to develop critical thinking, reading, and writing skills in the middle school classroom, and shows teachers how to facilitate student discussions.

Provides a leveled list of more than 45,000 books suitable for classroom reading for the 2013-2015 school years. Offers a variety of classic and contemporary titles and a wide range of choices within each genre, organized alphabetically by title.

Presents a discussion of content-area reading, providing tools and structures teachers may use to get students interested in reading and to help them understand what they read by incorporating newspapers, magazines, Web sties, and nonfiction trade books across the curriculum.

Describes a variety of motivational techniques designed to encourage young teens to read, including reading workshops, literature circles, book clubs, booktalks, and interdisciplinary and thematic units; and includes annotated lists of young adult literature.

Presents a three-part framework for teaching students to read and comprehend nonfiction writing, and offers strategies for using that framework in the classroom and providing students with support as they learn.

Invites teachers to explore the question of whether or not they are good motivators, explains the theory behind enactment strategies, and describes techniques that may be used in the classroom to promote better reading comprehension.