I would get Ruth Schoenbach and Cynthia Greenleaf Reading for Understanding.
This book comes from a major project at California's West Ed - a regional ed center. Their goal is to improve secondary reading and writing. They work with teams of middle school teachers including the reading/English teacher and content area teachers. They've worked with really challenging schools, not just the doing okay kids and schools. They have a powerful framework that is quite compelling for all teachers, not just the literacy teachers. I've worked with these people and used the book with work with some high school teachers. It is excellent. But I would contact the project at West Ed and find out when they will be running Institutes during the year and think about sending a team. It is truly one of the best projects I've ever worked with in ALL my years! Feel free to contact me if you want to talk more about it. They've also had an excellent article in Harvard Ed Review and another that was published featuring a middle school but I forget where that was published. It is somewhere in one of my boxes. I could try to look later in the summer. (I have probably 200 boxes so can't find it immediately.) Sally On 6/13/11 2:53 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > I would greatly appreciate any suggestions/ideas/etc. from secondary/middle > school teachers on how to encourage my middle schoolo/secondary content > pre-service teachers to "get serious" about reading and writing across the > content areas in their classes. > > Many thanks. > > Mary > _______________________________________________ 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
