61 Virtual Classmates E-mail About Cold Mountain Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This professional resource is an article by two teachers who designed and hosted an e-mail collaborative between secondary and post-secondary students. A complete description of the teacher research on this process, background information, details of the collaborative (literary analysis of Cold Mountain ), and reflections on the dialogue initated as a result of this project include thoughtful speculation about technology, dialogue, and teacher response.... Projects: Writing 6-12 62 Metacognition and Reading: One School's Odyssey Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This professional resource is a detailed and lively article about how students' learning can be improved through metacognition. The author shares her experiences with incorporating metacognition and reading in her fourth grade classroom, all the while providing an in-depth look at the process of preparing, implementing, and examining the results of that implementation.... Projects: Writing 6-12 63 Adolescent Literacy In Perspective, May 2005, Explicit Comprehension Strategies Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: "Explicit Comprehension Strategies" is the theme of the May 2005 issue of Adolescent Literacy In Perspective, and features teacher and author Cris Tovani explaining how to make reading comprehension instruction visible in the adolescent classroom. In her article, "Show Me the Thinking: Making Comprehension Instruction Visible," Tovani considers what teachers and students want to know, and asks targeted questions: What causes readers to lose track of their thinking while reading? How do readers get their thinking back on track? How can teachers help all the different levels of students in their classes? How can those “voices in the head” be used to help students do a better job of monitoring their own comprehension? Carolyn Suttles shares a classroom vignette about using e-mail to engage students in the reading process, and Joyce K.... Projects: Writing 6-12 64 Me Read? No Way!: A Practical Guide to Improving Boys' Literacy Skills Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: Prepared by the Ontario Ministry of Education, this guide focuses on the literacy development of boys and provides practical and effective strategies for classroom use. The guide features a rich source of practices and strategies that have been used successfully in literacy programs around the world.... 65 Reading Next - A Vision for Action and Research in Middle and High School Literacy: A Report to Carnegie Corporation of New York Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This professional resource by the Alliance for Excellent Education is the full-text pdf report on a vision for action and research in middle and high school literacy. Fifteen key elements of effective adolescent literacy programs are identified, detailed, and supported with important reading research.... Projects: Writing 6-12 66 Intervention Research for Adolescents with Learning Disabilities: A Meta-Analysis of Outcomes Related to High-Order Processing Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: Most adolescents become more sophisticated learners as they move through their elementary years into adolescence. Those students with learning disabilities (LD), however, have a struggle with higher-order processing that begins in the elementary years and continues to generalize into adolescence.... 67 Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM): Reading and Writing Measures in Secondary Education Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: This handout was presented at the 2005 Council for Exceptional Chiildren (CEC) Convention & Expo as an efficient description of curriculum-based measurement. The handout describes the characteristics and advantages of CBM and provides methods for developing probes for measuring the reading and writing performance of students in secondary school.... 68 Adolescent Literacy: Encouraging the Development of Adolescent Readers Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: This inquiry study, which was part of the NCTE Reading Initiative in 2002, looks at ways to encourage the development of adolescent readers as they expand their learning into more complex and varied areas. Adolescents' literacy histories and their wide range of abilities are included in the background information necessary to begin to understand what... 69 Reinventing Adolescent Literacy for New Times: Perennial And Millennial Issues Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: Adolescent literacy is undergoing vast changes. In 1998, then editors at the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, Allan Luke and John Elkins suggested the need to reinvent literacy for the 21st century.... 70 Adolescent Literacy In Perspective, May/June 2006, Young Adult Literature: Books that Engage Tweens and Teens Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: The May/June 2006 issue of AdLIT's In Perspective focuses on young adult literature. The entire issue can be downloaded, and regular columns include the following: (1) featured article; (2) classroom vignettes; (3) student voices; (4) a look at the Ohio Graduation Test; (5) for your bookshelf; and (6) resources from the ORC collection.... Projects: Writing 6-12 |