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Michaela Klusman

Prohibition & Organized Crime - Teaching the Literature of the Roaring Twenties - 1 views

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instruction TEMS520 reading LITERACY education prohibition crime teaching literature highschool

shared by Michaela Klusman on 10 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Michaela Klusman on 10 Apr 12
     
    Teaching prohibition & organized crime with The Great Gatsby and the attached resources is a BREEZE! (:
  • Linda Clinton on 15 Apr 12
     
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Dianna Morrison

Journal #2: Cool Books for Tough Guys: 50 Books Out of the Mainstream of Adolescent Lit... - 2 views

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reading literacy strategies education

shared by Dianna Morrison on 05 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Dianna Morrison on 05 Feb 12
     
    "Teachers of English need to reach the tough guys out there, and they are probably not going to do it by prescribing another go at The Sound and the Fury. The problem is not so much that tough guys lack the brainpower to read: they simply do not want to." I like the suggestions given for books to motivate adolescent male readers given in this article. I appreciate how Lawrence Baines has collected information over the years to share with us as teachers.
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  • Michelle Voelker on 06 Feb 12
     
    I smiled when I saw this... I have had some "tough guys" in middle school Language Arts, especially when we read only 1 text that has a male protagonist in the 8th grade. Luckily, we just started teaching Glory Road, a screen play about a college basketball team during the 1960s and my boys connected very well to that text. I actually found "Crime Lab 101: Experimenting with Crime Detection" at the Salvation Army over the summer and bought it. (It was one of my "grab everything on the shelf and buy it" days). A student that "hates reading" found that book and I actually have heard from other teachers that he "doesn't pay attention in class because of that book." I think there could be worse reasons for not paying attention. :)
  • Linda Clinton on 12 Feb 12
     
    What ideas do you have for getting "tough guys" to read.?
  • Dianna Morrison on 12 Feb 12
     
    I always try to do an interest inventory with students and find books that fall into these interests to offer for independent reading time. I also love informational books that center around sports and life oddities, such as Ripley's or Guiness Book of World Records. Boys seem to like these types of books. I have used Sports Illustrated for Kids also as an offer for reading. For class books, I have used "The Air Down Here" by Gil Alicea, a teenage boy from the Bronx. It is written in journal format and tells about his life in his own words. I used this with 8th graders and the boys especially seemed to "grudgingly" get interested and want to read more! I also found that books about aliens, Big Foot, Sasquatch and those types of informational books were interesting to them as well!
  • Linda Clinton on 20 Feb 12
     
    When I was a media center teacher, I could not keep the Guinness or Ripley books on the shelf! I think besides the "ew" factor, another draw is (of course) the pictures, and small chunks of text.
Colleen Fell

Our group project - 1 views

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TEMS520 education WRITING LITERACY

shared by Colleen Fell on 10 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Colleen Fell on 10 Apr 12
     
    Here is our group project on the roaring twenties! Enjoy!
  • Linda Clinton on 15 Apr 12
     
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Wendy Morales

Journal #3: Literacy Instruction For Older Struggling Readers: What is the Role of Te... - 4 views

 http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/read180/pdfs/Hasselbring_and_Goin_technology_literacy_professional_paper.pdf This article from Scholastic is meaningful to me because in general, olde...

TEMS520 Journal#3 Literacy reading research technology

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