On Dec 12, 2006, at 9:12 PM, Beverly Maddox wrote: > Such heartening stories--our principal is calling for reading in teh > content areas, but I'm not sure he understands exactly what he > wants--and I know teacher resistance is high in about half the > faculty, who feel pressured to "cover" their curricula.
Bev, our principal asked us to create Reading Partnerships this year, pairing language arts teachers with content teachers in small groups of 3 or 4. I wrote a little about our efforts previously. We are using Doug Fisher's Improving Adolescent Literacy: Strategies at Work as a book study with good responses thus far. Doug spoke at FCTE in October and was quite impressive. They transformed a low-performing school in San Diego to a 90-90-90 school (90% free/reduced lunch, 90% minority, 90% at or above proficiency on testing). The book is very reader-friendly and includes examples in each chapter of how a reading strategy was applied in various content areas (ie ways to "cover" the curricula by increasing comprehension of concepts). You might want to take a look at it. I hope to come to Little Rock some time this year - will let you know if I get there. Ginny White Fernandina Beach Middle (FL) _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
