Help for teachers of disengaged middle school readers is here! This innovative collection of strategies and activities draws on middle schoolers’ desire to “be heard” by placing them in the position of reviewer, editor, and critic of their reading assignments. Response activities are designed in purposeful formats including postcards, memos, book reviews, letters to textbook editors, and revision proposals. They also include ideas for differentiating activities to reach students with a range of abilities. For use with Grades 5–9.

Reading Response That Really Matters to Middle Schoolers: Engaging Mini-Lessons, Strategies, and Activities for Teaching Middle Schoolers to Read and ... in Response to Fiction and Nonfiction

Education & Teaching

Lewin, Larry

Schools & Teaching

Teaching Strategies

Middle-school literacy expert Larry Lewin shares 12 questioning strategies that boost students' critical thinking and comprehension during and after reading. Easy to integrate into reading assignments in any content-area, these classroom-tested techniques help students engage in a dialogue with the text they're reading, improve their recall and understanding, and build a strong sense of purpose for reading. 
Strategies are scaffolded to provide plenty of instructional support. Students first learn to phrase questions to serve specific reading purposes, such as gathering information, making predictions, and responding to author bias. As they become more skilled at questioning their texts, students move on to more advanced techniques, such as QAR (Question-Answer Relationship) and QtA (Questioning the Author), which Lewin has specially adapted for middle-school students. Other features include teacher-student exchanges that demonstrate the strategies in action, step-by-step lessons, student work samples, and assessment ideas. For use with Grades 5 &amp; Up.

Teaching Comprehension With Questioning Strategies That Motivate Middle School Readers

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching Strategies)

Offers a four-step approach to developing performance assessments.

Great Performances: Creating Classroom-Based Assessment Tasks

Shoemaker, Betty Jean

Assn for Supervision & Curriculum

Offers examples and strategies to help teachers incorporate the World Wide Web into their classrooms and encourage students to tap into this resource.

Using the Internet to Strengthen Curriculum

Open the Deck

Children's Books

Knight, Tanis

Education & Reference

Stack the Deck, Inc.

Book by Knight, Tanis, Lewin, Larry

Tap the Deck

Check the Deck

"What grade did you give me?" students often ask teachers, as if teachers randomly assign grades. Too many students do not understand how their academic performance in the classroom corresponds with various grades. Improving students' understanding of what their teachers expect them to do, how well they should be able to do it, and how they should go about accomplishing it is what this book is all about. Lewin and Shoemaker show you how to teach rich, integrated, thematic units of instruction where students grapple with meaty conceptual ideas and use the processes of reading, writing, problem solving, and investigation. The authors share what they've learned about developing and assessing powerful performance tasks ranging from short and specific to lengthy and substantive. Their focus is on the practical, the doable. You can learn from their successes as well as their mistakes. The authors discuss a four-step approach for teaching students how to acquire content knowledge labeled "Info In" and examine four "Info Out" modes through which students can make their content understanding explicit for evaluation purposes. Great Performances is filled with highly motivating examples of student projects as well as effective assessment tools that teachers can adapt for their own classrooms. In this new edition, you will find: -updated examples and scoring mechanisms throughout the chapters; -expanded options for converting performance task scores into required letter grades for reporting to parents; and -a new chapter on reading assessment to help teachers navigate their way through Response to Intervention. This chapter also provides as a helpful review of popular commercially published in-class reading assessments. Teaching to and assessing with performance tasks result in true understanding--the type of understanding students will need in the world, where they will be expected to produce "Great Performances."

ASCD

Book by Shoemaker, Betty, Lewin, Larry

Innovative Instruction: A Menu of Teaching Tools for Effective Student Learning

Shoemaker, Betty

Christopher-Gordon Pub

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Reading Response That Really Matters to Middle Schoolers: Engaging Mini-Lessons, Strategies, and Activities for Teaching Middle Schoolers to Read and ... in Response to Fiction and Nonfiction

Teaching Comprehension With Questioning Strategies That Motivate Middle School Readers

Great Performances: Creating Classroom-Based Assessment Tasks

Using the Internet to Strengthen Curriculum

Open the Deck

Tap the Deck

Check the Deck

Great Performances: Creating Classroom-Based Assessment Tasks

Innovative Instruction: A Menu of Teaching Tools for Effective Student Learning