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  • Making the Common Core Text Exemplars Accessible to Middle Graders


    This article from Voices from the Middle (May 2013) provides an overview of the Common Core text exemplars and gives examples of ways teachers can group text exemplars and other trade books in ways that will support middle graders’ understanding of complex texts.

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    Resources - Barbara Moss - May 10 2013 - 12:20pm
  • Matching Instructional Strategies to Facets of Comprehension

    The author of this Voices from the Middle article, Susan I. McMahon, adopts the stance that, even though strategy use should be taught to help learners monitor their comprehension, such instruction is not sufficient to ensure transfer or ownership. Further, such instruction often...

    Resources - Susan I. McMahon - Apr 30 2013 - 2:41pm
  • All Teachers Are Not Teachers of Reading, but...

    All teachers are not teachers of reading, but all teachers use language as part of the learning process.  This Web seminar session focuses on the role that language plays in learning and...

    Resources - Doug Fisher - Jun 5 2012 - 3:18pm
  • Disciplinary Literacy: Why It Matters and What We Should Do About It

    Elizabeth Birr Moje, coming from a background as a history and science teacher, discusses disciplinary literacy. This hour-long keynote presentation, rich with strategies that can be applied in the K-12 classroom, took place during the March 2010 National Reading Initiative Conference in New...

    Resources - Elizabeth Birr Moje - Sep 26 2012 - 1:10pm
  • Using Formative Reading Assessment to Enhance Content Area Learning

    Watch this archived Web seminar and learn more about formative assessment strategies for guiding literacy instruction in all...

    Resources - NCLE - Jan 23 2013 - 6:19pm
  • What Is New about the New Literacies of Online Reading Comprehension?

    This chapter from Secondary School Literacy: What Research Reveals for Classroom Practice (NCTE, 2007) shows how change is required in our conception of reading comprehension. New online reading comprehension skills and strategies will be required as, increasingly, our reading worlds move to the...

    Resources - Brian C. Housand, Donald J. Leu, Jill Castek, Lisa Zawilinski, Manju Banerjee, Maureen O'Neil, Yingjie Liu - May 10 2012 - 11:38am
  • Long-Term English Learners Writing Their Stories

    High school teacher C. Lynn Jacobs noted that the long-term English language learners in her class had improved in reading comprehension but still lacked writing skills. Inspired by a state humanities project, she worked with the students to publish a collection of stories and poems. Writing...

    Resources - C. Lynn Jacobs - Oct 3 2012 - 2:46pm
  • Using Your State’s Travel Websites to Promote Academic Vocabulary

    In an attempt to teach vocabulary more effectively, particularly to her eighth-grade English language learners who were past the newcomer stage but not yet proficient, this educator developed some techniques that link vocabulary to images and then to student's everyday lives, and that...

    Resources - Porsche L. Sims - Oct 3 2012 - 2:41pm
  • Representing Close Readings in Academic Writing

    Whether we call it critical literacy, problem solving, or meaning making, being able to read and analyze with precision and judgment empowers students in all academic courses. In Representing Close Readings in Academic Writing, Chapter 4 of 360 Degrees of Text: Using Poetry to Teach Close...

    Resources - Eileen Murphy Buckley - May 10 2012 - 11:29am