Reading in the Middle School

📖 The Scoop

Intended for practitioners, this book's major purpose is to reaffirm the unique and integral roles reading and literacy play in middle school curriculum and instruction. The book emphasizes: (1) the research-based rationale for what educators teach in reading and how it is taught; (2) an integration of reading with writing; (3) an acknowledgement that middle school reading instruction occurs within a context that imposes constraints which, in turn, shape the nature of middle school reading curriculum and instruction; (4) the importance of gradual, contextually bound charge relative to the conditions imposed by both policy and environment; and (5) a strategy of creating effective instructional improvement through collaboration among practitioners, teacher educators, and theorists. Part 1 includes four chapters that provide a frame of reference for middle school reading. The five chapters in Part 2 focus on middle school reading curriculum and instruction. Part 3 consists of five chapters in which reading educators and/or practitioners describe a particular perspective on how effective reading programs are implemented in specific school settings. Part 4 consists of a single chapter that foreshadows what to expect in middle school reading during the 1990s. (MG)

Genre: Education / Schools / Levels / Elementary (fancy, right?)