Product Description: This book presents both a theoretical framework and classroom-tested ideas for literacy instruction in middle schools. Equally suitable for middle school courses as well as for in-service training, this concise yet comprehensive text is divided into two parts—Part I introduces students to 8 principles/concerns that are at the forefront of middle school students' minds and Part II includes applications for Literacy Instruction and Learning in the Middle Grades Reading/LA classes, providing teaching ideas, instructional strategies, and suggestions for assessment, evaluation and grading...read more

Discusses the theory and beliefs of integrated literacy pedagogy and the key aspects of literacy instruction, reading, literature, writing, oral language, popular media, and interdisiplinary instruction.

Product Description: The book is a collection of real-life letters to veteran teacher Mike Rychlik along with his responses. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Cooney's large body of work for adolescents defies easy classification. She has written award-winning adventure, suspense, romance, family, mystery, and historical fiction, as well as action-driven horror stories and a time-travel trilogy...read more

Product Description: Teachers, media specialists, parents, and other adults who work with adolescents must recognize that our society influences who teenagers are and how they develop as language users. This unique resource provides guidance to these professionals by pairing literacy specialists with counselors who introduce information about social issues important to today's adolescents...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)