There's Room for Me Here: Literacy Workshop in the Middle School

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Stenhouse Publishers, 1998 - 245 pages

What do you do with students who cannot or will not read and write? This portrait of Kyle Gonzalez's classroom offers teachers theory-based strategies for helping students become motivated and successful readers and writers. You will see how one middle school teacher sets up her literacy classroom, offers intervention and support for struggling students, and assesses their progress. Rich in description of Kyle's successes, the book also looks honestly at why some practices were ineffective in her setting.

With Janet's and Kyle's practical and detailed suggestions for creating a literate environment, you'll learn how to:establish a literacy workshop;choose and use effective resources;implement effective, informative record-keeping;help students establish goals and assess progress;use read-alouds as well as shared, guided, and independent reading and writing;instill reading and writing practices that help students read content-specific texts.

There's Room for Me Here includes record-keeping forms, extensive bibliographies of literature and professional materials, resource information, and samples of strategy lessons all embedded in this engaging story of a teacher's first three years building a literacy workshop in her classroom.

Kyle's students are middle school learners who struggle with literacy. The strategies, content-area connections, and management ideas, however, are applicable and appropriate for use by any 3-12 teacher.

 

Contents

1 In Pursuit of Hopefulness
1
2 From Hey Crackhead to The Lion King
5
3 Connections Within and Beyond the Literacy Workshop
11
WholeGroup Strategies
37
5 Cant We Please Just Read? Independent Reading in the Literacy Workshop
60
6 Reading to Write and Writing to Read
83
7 A Gathering of Goals
104
8 Are You Sure Iced Tea Used to Be Hot?
117
11 But What About
170
12 Finding the Keys Opening the Locks
184
Forms
191
Resources
220
Suggested Titles for Shared Reading
223
Suggested Titles for Independent Reading
226
Professional References
231
Literary References
235

9 It Makes a Difference to This One
134
10 Assessment and Record Keeping
153
Index
241

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