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By Abdullah, Amal NONFICTION AUTHOR STUDIES IN THE ELEMENTARY CLASSROOM. Carol Brennan Jenkins & Deborah J. D. White (Eds.). Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2007. 160pp. $19.00. Are you an elementary educator searching for methods to effectively integrate nonfiction books into the classroom curricula? Then you should read Nonfiction Author Studies in the Elementary Classroom, edited by Carol Brennan Jenkins and Deborah J. D. White, each of whom has several decades of experience in the education...
By Patterson, Janice Manning, Maryann STANDARDS FOR MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL LITERACY COACHES. International Reading Association, 2006. In addition to IRA, four separate education organizations contributed to the writing of this publication (National Council of Teachers of English, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, National Science Teachers Association, and the National Council of the Social Studies), which outlines in great detail policies and strategies to be implemented in order...
By Long, Deborah OUR HIGH SCHOOL CLASSROOMS ARE FILLED WITH STRUGGLING READERS. WE RECOGNIZE SOME OF THEM BY THEIR INTTENTION TO DETAIL, LACK OF ENGAGEMENT WITH TEXT, AND REFUSAL TO USE READING COMPREHENSION STRATEGIES. BUT MANY OF OUR STRUGGLING READERS ARE MORE DIFFICULT TO IDENTIFY. READERS AT EVEN THE MOST ADVANCED LEVELS OF SKILL BECOME STRUGGLING READERS WHEN FACED WITH THE COMPLICATED VOCABULARY, THE CONFUSING SYNTAX, AND THE CHALLENGING CONTENT THAT HIGH SCHOOL COURSES DEMAND....
