381 Reading and the Mathematics OGT Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: Mathematics, English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–10 Professional Commentary: In this article, ORC Executive Director Peggy Kasten addresses how important being able to "read" mathematics problems is for being able to solve those problems. Kasten identifies two important ways of reading -- creating mental images and understanding -- as necessary components for being able to understand what a mathematics problem is asking.... 382 Fostering Metacognitive Conversation in Professional Learning Communities and Subject-Area Classrooms Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: Cynthia Greenleaf's "Fostering Metacognitive Conversation in Professional Learning Communities and Subject-Area Classrooms" is the featured article in this issue (February 2006) of AdLIT's In Perspective. The author explains the significance of and engagement in metacognitive conversation in professional learning communities and subject-area classrooms in seven sections: (1) Tapping Subject-Area Teachers' Expertise in Reading; (2) Fostering Metacognitive Conversation in the Classroom; (3) Introducing Think-Aloud as a Metacognitive Routine; (4) To Prepare and Teach Think-Aloud; and (5) Metacognitive Conversation is Key; (6) Using Think-Aloud to Teach Subject-Specific Thinking Processes; and (7) Metacognitive Conversation Apprentices Students to Subject-Area Reading.... Projects: Writing 6-12 383 Who Better Than the "Leading Learner"? Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 4–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: "Who Better Than the 'Leading Learner'?" is one of three classroom vignettes in this month's (February 2006) issue of AdLIT In Perspective. In this vignette, secondary curriculum and instruction coordinator for Westerville City Schools Laura Lipsett addresses emphatically the role teachers need to take in teaching reading in the content areas: "Teaching content-area literacy isn't another add-on.... Projects: Writing 6-12 384 Literature--Before, Behind, and Beyond Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: In this classroom vignette, Cher Orebaugh, a former middle and high school teacher, lends her firsthand experience to teaching literature (Wuthering Heights) in new ways. Available in its entirety in the February 2006 issue of AdLIT In Perspective, "Literature--Before, Behind, and Beyond" traces Orebaugh's introduction to, use of, and ultimately success with frontloading to teach her students Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights.... Projects: Writing 6-12 385 Supporting Readers in Social Studies: Effective Strategies for Learning Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 4–8, Postsecondary Professional Commentary: In this classroom vignette, 4th and 5th grade social studies teacher Brenda Shelton shares her dilemma with (and ultimately, answer to) teaching the academic content standard goals for social studies. Her entire article is available in the February 2006 issue of AdLIT In Perspective.... Projects: Writing 6-12 386 A Look at the OGT: Confronting Informational Text Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–10 Professional Commentary: "A Look at the OGT" is a column featured in each issue of AdLIT's In Perspective. This month's focus (February 2006) is on confronting informational text.... Projects: Writing 6-12 387 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 6-12 388 Our Father-Son Book Club Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: Scott Morrison and Keith Wayne, both 4th-grade teachers, chronicle their experience generating an idea for and then launching a father-son book club. They include "the nuts and bolts of the process" as well as some selected book titles and activities.... Projects: Writing 6-12 389 Getting Boys to Read: Teachers Whose Classrooms Teach Us How to Do It Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: In this classroom vignette resource, English language arts and education consultant June Berkley offers valuable insight into what motivates, engages, and moves boys to read. Her article includes practical teacher tips, answers to concerns, and a compassionate, teacher-centered perspective on "great classrooms." (author/ebm) Projects: Writing 6-12 390 A Look at the OGT: Raising the Reading Achievement of Boys Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–10 Professional Commentary: In order to address how to help raise the reading achievement of boys on the Ohio Graduation Test, Nicole Luthy focuses on research (how boys perform on the OGT) and strategies that will provide additional support for all underachieving boys. The author includes a brief discussion of each of the strategies: (1) expanding the range of genres used for instruction; (2) connecting "real reading" to "school reading"; (3) modeling how to read challenging texts by making your thinking visible for students; (4) building familiarity with the content; and (5) formatting of the assessment in novel ways.... Projects: Writing 6-12 |