141 Who Better Than the "Leading Learner"? Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 4–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: "Who Better Than the 'Leading Learner'?" is one of three classroom vignettes in this month's (February 2006) issue of AdLIT In Perspective. In this vignette, secondary curriculum and instruction coordinator for Westerville City Schools Laura Lipsett addresses emphatically the role teachers need to take in teaching reading in the content areas: "Teaching content-area literacy isn't another add-on.... Projects: Writing 6-12 142 Our Father-Son Book Club Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: Scott Morrison and Keith Wayne, both 4th-grade teachers, chronicle their experience generating an idea for and then launching a father-son book club. They include "the nuts and bolts of the process" as well as some selected book titles and activities.... Projects: Writing 6-12 143 Wired Students, Disconnected Learners Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: The April 2006 featured article is written by David L. Bruce, an assistant professor at Kent State in Teaching, Leadership, and Curriculum Studies.... Projects: Writing 6-12 Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–12 Professional Commentary: This professional resource houses a valuable and virtually exhaustive list of ways to generate questions. Author Jamie McKenzie uses graphic organizers and bulleted points to create visual concepts of questioning skills.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Arts & Communication, Business & Administrative Services, Construction Technologies, Education & Training, Engineering & Science Technologies, Finance, Government & Public Administration, Health Science, Hospitality & Tourism, Human Services, Information Technology, Law & Public Safety, Manufacturing Technologies, Marketing, Transportation Systems, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First 145 Simple Poems, Powerful Teaching: Experiencing Poetry in Content-Area Classrooms Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 7–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: Allison L. Baer's "Simple Poems, Powerful Teaching: Experiencing Poetry in Content-Area Classrooms" is the featured article in the January 2007 AdLIT's In Perspective.... Projects: Writing 6-12 146 Poetry and the Standards? Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 7–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This classroom vignette is a short piece written for the January '07 issue of AdLIT In Perspective detailing one teacher's experience with teaching poetry. Sandina Alexander, a teacher at Manchester High School, shares the magic of watching her beginning-of-the-year-facing-the-blank-page-with-trepidation students become her experienced classroom "poets." She begins her story with how she came to teach poetry, explains the progression of her students' writing assignments, and intersperses anecdotes throughout her lively teacher-to-teacher talk .... Projects: Writing 6-12 Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: In this resource, Daniel Boudah and Kevin O'Neill (1999) provide an overview of the theory of learning strategies and the research that supports that theory. Their focus is on middle and high school students with learning problems, including LD, who need solid strategies to be able to be successful with content area academics.... Projects: Writing 6-12 148 Using Collaborative Strategic Reading Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–10, Postsecondary Professional Commentary: In "Collaborative Strategic Reading" students employ comprehension strategies and work in a cooperative group with defined roles. This technique was originally developed to assist LD and at-risk students with expository texts but can be used for most students.... Projects: Writing 6-12 149 Reading Fluency for Adolescents: Should We Care? Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: Timothy Rasinski's "Reading Fluency for Adolescents: Should We Care?" is the featured article in the April 2007 AdLIT In Perspective. The author points out the disparity between what reading research recommends and what classroom studies show: fluency is being increasingly recognized as a key to success in reading, but many older students are not fluent readers.... Projects: Writing 6-12 150 Books by Rice, Schmidt, and Ogle, Klemp, & McBride Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: The February 2008 issue of AdLIT's In Perspective includes reviews by Beth Munger (instructor of composition and reading at Ohio Dominican University). This month's "For Your Bookshelf" includes the following titles: (1) What Was It Like? Teaching History and Culture Through Young Adult Literature by Linda J.... Projects: Writing 6-12 |