reading (middle school)

Describes a reading apprenticeship approach for getting middle and high school students interested in reading and improving their comprehension, focusing on academic literacy.

A comprehensive resource for library media and technology specialists that help them to motivate readers in the middle school setting.

Provides resources and materials for educators teaching reading comprehension to third- through sixth-grade students, including twelve lessons that use nonfiction texts, along with scaffolding tips, assessment ideas, and graphic organizers for each of the lessons.

Explains how to make read-aloud time an effective unscripted teaching tool, presenting real examples from the classroom, strategies for fiction and nonfiction, and advice on book choice and building classroom community, along with a list of favorite read-aloud books chosen by sixty-seven third- through sixth-grade teachers.

Identifies the elements of an effective reading lesson, and presents strategies teachers may use to help secondary students read and understand challenging fiction and nonfiction books.

Presents an alphabetical listing over 18,000 recommended books for students in kindergarten through eighth grade, each with notations on level, genre, word count, author/series, and publisher/distributor, and includes a second list organized by reading level.