91 Creating a Culture of Literacy Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: Tha National Association of Secondary School Principals has provided an extensive guide for Middle and High School principals and leaders in order to create a "culture of literacy" in their schools. This is a hands-on resource that informs through the best research and literacy practices.... Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 4–12 Professional Commentary: "Browse Reading Strategies" includes a list of reading strategies, each of which opens to a full resource on the strategy. "Questioning" is an excellent resource for teachers and educators seeking more information about strategies for questioning (OGT et al.), and can be linked to directly: http://www.ohiorc.org/adlit/strategy/strategy_each.aspx?id=000003.... Projects: Writing 6-12 93 Going Beyond Content: Fostering Students' Exploration of Text Structures and Purpose for Reading Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This article, a classroom vignette published in the November/December 2006 issue of "Adolescent Literacy In Perspective," details the importance and how-to's of teaching students text structures. Author and teacher, Melanie Stender, explains how to prepare students to navigate different types of texts by using what comes naturally to us as teachers: text structure and purpose.... Projects: Writing 6-12 94 A Look at the OGT: Nonfiction Text and the Math and Science OGT Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: Mathematics, Science, English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–10 Professional Commentary: Author Nicole Luthy, Reading Content Specialist for the Ohio Resource Center, writes about specific ways to prepare students for the range of reading they will experience in the mathematics and science Ohio Graduation Tests. Her article focuses both on looking at sample OGT problems and providing explicit reading strategies to teach, strengthen, and reinforce students' comprehension.... Projects: Writing 6-12 95 Books by Burke, by Gallagher, by Forsten, Grant, and Hollas, and by Irvin, Buehl, and Radcliffe Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts, General Education Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: Sheila Cantlebary, a reading content specialist at the Ohio Resource Center and a former teacher in the Columbus Public Schools, regularly reviews books for In Perspective in her column, "For Your Bookshelf." In this issue, Cantlebary looks at four excellent books about adolescent literacy that address ways to teach explicit reading strategies. Fueled by current reading research and hands-on classroom experience, the authors of these four books focus on improving students' comprehension of nonfiction and textbooks.... Projects: Writing 6-12 96 More Resources on Using Textbooks More Effectively Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: A regular feature in AdLit's "In Perspective," this column lists additional resources for the current issue's focus. This month, the column lists resources in response to using textbooks more effectively.... Projects: Writing 6-12 97 Strategic Questions: Helping Students Develop the "Noticing" Habit Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: Mathematics, English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: In this feature article of AdLit's "In Perspective," Nancy Fordham, associate professor of education at Bowling Green State University, provides an in-depth look at reading comprehension and how we teach strategic questioning and comprehension in the classroom. Beginning with an anecdote of her experience working with preservice teachers, Fordham makes connections between students' reading comprehension and the questions teachers pose.... Projects: Writing 6-12 |