Building literacy through classroom discussion : research-based strategies for developing critical readers and thoughtful writers in middle school / Mary Adler & Eija Rougle ; [foreword by Judith A. Langer and Arthur N. Applebee].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adler, Mary.

Contributor:

Rougle, Eija.

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Series:

Teaching resources

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language arts (Middle school)--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Language arts (Middle school).

Literacy programs--United States.

Literacy programs.

United States.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Scholastic Inc., [2005]

Summary:

Want to help students achieve greater depth of reading, writing, and understanding? This book shows teachers how to facilitate discussions where students share rich, defensible interpretations of literature and solid, reasoned, understandings of any concepts under study. Based on the authors' extensive research in middle schools, it describes why discussion-based instruction is crucial to achievement, and then shows you how to introduce and sustain discussions. The authors clearly define the teacher's role and provide lots of successful strategies such as provocative statements and journal jots. Trouble-shooting sections answer common questions teachers have, such as how to correct a wrong interpretation and how to teach students to build on each other's comments.

Contents:

Good discussion

Learning to voice ideas

Beginning discussion

Deepening the intellectual exchange

Using discussion to further develop students' literacy achievements

Sustaining discussions

Connecting middle schoolers to the world

Across the school year

Extending discussion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-212) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

0439616506

9780439616508

OCLC:

62385702