On a professional reading note, the Mosaic List recently had a team of four teachers review: "Less is More: Teaching Literature with Short Texts-Grades 6-12" http://www.stenhouse.com/0710.asp (currently the entire book is available PDF).
The book provides some great ideas as well as resources for using all sorts of short texts from memoirs to graphic novels. It seems like a really timely book for teachers that are struggling with reluctant readers or wondering how to expand their instructional strategies. Cris Tovani says: "Less Is More is full of powerful ideas for teaching with short, provocative text. This book broadens and extends our available teaching tools and materials, and can help engage all students. It is a valuable resource for language arts teachers." The reviews on Mosaic are available on the list archive at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mosaic%40literacyworkshop.org/msg07214.html> Keith Mack [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.literacyworkshop.org _______________________________________________ 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
