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Title:

Into focus : understanding and creating middle school readers / editors, Kylene Beers, Barbara G. Samuels.

Publisher:

Christopher-Gordon Publishers,

Copyright Date:

c1998

Description:

xx, 490 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Reading (Middle school)--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Middle school students--Books and reading--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Other Authors:

Beers, G. Kylene, 1957-
Samuels, Barbara G., 1941-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-450) and indexes.

Contents:

Section V. A focus on teachers -- Selection aids : places to go when there's more you need to know / Patricia Potter Wilson. Voices of middle school readers / Hollis Lowery-Moore -- Choosing not to read : understanding why some middle schoolers just say no / Kylene Beers -- Call me Ishmael : a look at gifted middle school readers / Barbara Baskin -- Reaching struggling readers / Margaret Hill -- Latino students and reading : understanding these English language learners' needs / Yolanda Padrón -- Section II. A focus on response -- Reader-response theory in the middle school / Robert Probst -- Thermatic units and readers' workshop : how the two connect / Mary Santerre -- Promoting literature discussions / Elizabeth A. Poe -- Readers take responsibility : literature circles and the growth of critical thinking / Judith Scott and Jan Wells -- Using dialectical journals to build beginning literary response / Sandra L. Robertson -- Section III. A focus on improving and assessing comprehension -- Strategies : what connects readers to meaning / Judy Wallis -- Reading aloud to build success in reading / Teri S. Lesesne -- Fostering independent, critical content reading in the middle grades / Karen M. Feathers -- Authentic reading assessment in the middle school / Devon Brenner and P. David Pearson -- Section IV. A focus on materials - from books to computers -- Castles to Colin Powell : the truth about nonfiction / Betty Carter and Richard F. Abrahamson -- Short stories-long overdue / Donald R. Gallo -- Creating lifetime readers : a novel idea / Barbara G. Samuels -- It ain't only in books any more / Ted Hipple and Elizabeth Goza -- The genie in the computer / Elizabeth Stephens -- Section V. A focus on teachers -- Honoring teacher voices through professional conversations / Carol A. Pope and Karen S. Kutiper -- Selection aids : places to go when there's more you need to know / Patricia Potter Wilson.

ISBN:

9780926842649
0926842641

LCCN:

98106187

Locations:

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

IAOX771 -- State Library of Iowa (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

LZSX115 -- Storm Lake Middle School (Storm Lake)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)