41 Motivating African American Teenage Boys to Read Text Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: Alfred W. Tatum's "Motivating African American Teenage Boys to Read Text" is the featured article in the March 2006 of AdLIT's In Perspective.... Projects: Writing 6-12 42 A Look at the OGT: Using NAEP Items to Help Students Achieve the Benchmarks Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–10 Professional Commentary: This look at the OGT focuses on using NAEP items to help students achieve the benchmarks. NAEP assessment items are particularly useful in determining student achievement in a standards-based system.... Projects: Writing 6-12 43 Making the Match: Engaging Reluctant Readers in YA Literature Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: Teri S. Lesesne's "Making the Match: Engaging Reluctant Readers in YA Literature" is the featured article in this issue (May/June 2006) of AdLIT's In Perspective.... 44 Motivating Lifelong Reading Through Fiction Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: In this classroom vignette, Jennifer Wolf, a reading differentiation teacher at Sells Middle School in Dublin, Ohio, begins with a question to teachers: "But how, exactly, can we support middle school studetns so that they are more likely to make this choice?" The author then responds with five practical strategies for engaging and motivating adolescents to read: (1) Know the books; (2) Know your students; (3) Get the right books in students' hands; (4) Support choice; and (5) Provide time to read and share. Wolf briefly explains how to use each of the five strategies in the classroom.... Projects: Writing 6-12 Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 4–12 Professional Commentary: This short article details a four-step process for teaching students the "Questioning the Author" reading strategy. Each step includes a specific classroom application, and the site is written in such a way as to address all content areas.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: This two-page document from Jim Burke's Web Companion Homepage for Illuminating Texts presents an outline approach for introducing textbooks to students. Writing with adolescent learners in mind, the author shows both students and teachers how to organize note-taking, understand a textbook's layout, and navigate challenging text using a myriad of strategies.... Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: This one-page handout outlines, in sequential order, nine steps for students to use when pre-reading a textbook or article. The handout, from Jim Burke's web site, is split into two vertical sections.... 48 Reading Strategies: Scaffolding Students' Interactions with Texts Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: "Reading Strategies," a site linked from the English language arts home page of the Greece Central School District, provides teachers with an extensive list of reading strategies which can be used by students to promote their comprehension and understanding. The reading strategies themselves-- RAFT, Reciprocal Teaching, QAR, Think Aloud, and Writer's Craft Seminar, to name but... Projects: Writing 6-12 49 Reading Interest Survey Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This reading interest survey was drawn from the article "But There's Nothing Good to Read" by Denice Hildebrandt. It is an example of a survey that probes teens to talk about their reading habits and their feelings about reading.... Projects: Writing 6-12 50 Secondary Students with Learning Disabilities in Reading: Developing Reading Fluency Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This professional resource focuses on reading fluency. Always an important part of students' literacy development, reading fluency becomes critical as students enter middle and high schools where increased reading demands can cause them to fall behind in content area classes.... Projects: Writing 6-12 |