Product Description: From two prominent scholars in the field comes a book that addresses language arts and literacy in the middle grades. Complete with authentic cases and classroom examples, the book examines research and theory-based approaches to teaching literacy in the middle school classroom...read more

Examines current methods for teaching literature to middle and high school students, covering methods based on the social constructivist and socio-cultural theory of learning.

Product Description: With its sights clearly set on middle school teachers and the middle school teaching experience, this new book expands the definition of literacy to encompass today's popular electronic and audiovisual media. Research-driven coverage offers a thorough presentation of the theory of middle school teaching, plus a wealth of real stories from real classrooms that demonstrate strategies in actual practice...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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The author of this volume makes an argument for a more activist, critical constructivist approach to teaching adolescents, without minimizing the difficulties faced by teachers of literature as they attempt to negotiate the social, cultural and political arenas of their own classrooms. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Examines how people develop their reading and writing skills during adolescence and adulthood. This collection is based on the premise that four basic stances (orientations) underlie the discourse practices: social, textual, institutional, and field...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)