To help with the notion of an advanced reading class you may want to consider: 1. Use questions that employ Bloom's top 3 levels, analysis, synthesis and evaluation 2. Use projects that allow students to use one or more of their multiple intelligences 3. Use DeBono's six hats thinking framework to analyze various literature selections 4. Have students create multi-media presentations for the class regarding various literature selections 5. Have students engage in a debate regarding characters - protagonist vs. antagonist 6. Use Kohlberg's levels of moral development and relate to various characters in the literature selection
Hope this helps. ---- reading <[email protected]> wrote: > The school where I teach performs very well on state standardized tests. In > reading I believe the scores are well above 90%. This is my first year > teaching 7th grade and the first year of a newly developed "advanced" > literature class which I am teaching. I'm struggling with how to make the > class "advanced". And now we are supposed to present to the > board.Theoretically, I don't like the concept of the class. I don't think my > philosphy of teaching meshes well with leveled reading classes. I wanted to > hear others opinions. Does your middle school have advanced classes? > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
