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Teaching Middle School Language Arts

Teaching Middle School Language Arts. Anna J. Small Roseboro, National Board Certified Teacher. Questions: An Overview. WHO am I? WHAT is my platform for writing? WHEN may you find these books useful? WHERE are the books being used now?

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Teaching Middle School Language Arts

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  1. Teaching Middle School Language Arts Anna J. Small Roseboro, National Board Certified Teacher

  2. Questions: An Overview • WHO am I? • WHAT is my platform for writing? • WHEN may you find these books useful? • WHERE are the books being used now? • WHY should you consider purchasing these books? • HOW can I support you in your current position?

  3. WHO is Anna J. Small Roseboro? • Wife • Mother • Teacher (5 states) • NBCT (EA/ELA) • Writing Project Fellow

  4. WHAT is Platform for Writing? • Classroom (Gr. 7-12) • Department Chair • Administrator • College Professor • Mentor

  5. WHAT ’s in the Books? • Rationales • Lesson Plans • Student Work • Diagrams • Assessments • Technology Tips • Grammar and Speech • Reading Lists • My own writing

  6. Tables of Contents Teaching Reading Foreword: Carol Jago, Past NCTE President Teaching Writing Foreword: Terry Bigelow Preface: “Getting to the Core of Language Arts Instruction”Dr. Quentin J. Schultze, Calvin College Professor

  7. Table of Contents, con’t • Introduction Anna J. Small Roseboro (Theoretical Foundation) Teaching Young Adolescents- “Captain your ship.” (p.11)

  8. Balancing Structure with Choices • While offering students lots of choice in their reading, writing, and responding is important, the key to becoming an effective teacher is to establish structures and routines on which the students can depend. …. Teaching Middle School Language Arts: Incorporating Twenty-first Century Literacies p. 9

  9. Balancing Structure with Choices “You Are Not Going Crazy, This Really is Normal Behavior,” … once adolescents know the boundaries, they frequently challenge them, but they usually comply.9 …Anne King Teaching Middle School Language Arts: Incorporating Twenty-first Century Literacies p. 9

  10. Sample Chapters from Teaching Reading • Scoping Out the Year – (Overview and Planning) • Networking Socially at the Start of a School Year (Anthology Scavenger Hunt) • Unpacking the Story and Understanding the Genre (Elements of Fiction) • Exploring Traditional and Contemporary Grammars Grammar Image

  11. Sample Chapters from Teaching Reading • Discussing and Writing Short Stories: Where Story Meets Genre (R.A.G’s) • Checking Out a Twentieth Century Novel (Vocabulary and Journaling) • Teaching Classical Fiction: Where the Ghosts of the Past Speak Today (M.I.))

  12. Sample Chapters from Teaching Reading • Taking T.I.M.E. to Teach Poetry

  13. Teaching Poetry

  14. Words, Words, Words Words stir me When I hear them, When I read them, When I write them, When I speak them.

  15. Words urge me To keep listening To keep reading To keep writing To keep speaking.

  16. Let me hear you, so I can know you. Let me speak, so you can know me.

  17. Prodigiously stirring words help me know you. And viscerally urging words help me know me. by Anna J.Roseboro

  18. Interdisciplinary Opening the Past Imaginatively: Teaching Historical Fiction

  19. Sample Chapters from Teaching Writing • Telling it Like It Is (Informative Writing) • Writing to Learn in the Content Areas (Formative Assessments and Reflective Writing) • Making the Case (Persuasive Writing) • Versing Life Together (Writing Poetry)

  20. Sample Chapters – Teaching Writing • Playing It Right: Reading, Performing and Writing Drama • Speaking of Grammars: Public Speaking and Media Arts

  21. Sample Chapters – Teaching Writing Celebrating Names: A Unit about Community and Identity

  22. Appendix and Bibliography • Collage Assignment • Book Reports • Evaluating Student Written Short Story • Prompts for Telling T.I.M.E. in Poetry • Myth Play Check-List • Outline for Problem Solving Speech • Peer Evaluation Rubric Teacher Resources

  23. SAMPLE LESSON Getting To Know our READING MATERIALS

  24. Introducing/Reviewing Text Features Anthologies, Magazines and Textbooks Fiction and Non-Fiction IMAGE

  25. Table of Content vs INDEX Image

  26. National Geographic

  27. Video – Non-Fiction Features Rap

  28. WHEN may you find books useful? • TEACHER new to middle school • Recent graduate • Reassigned to middle school • First time English Language Arts • Veteran looking for fresh ideas • Parent of teacher education student • TE Prof or Mentor

  29. WHERE are books being used? • Middle School Classrooms • High School Classrooms • College Classrooms • Home School Kitchen Tables • Science Classroom • District/Curriculum Workshops • Homes of Non-Teachers (My sister now writes poetry.)

  30. WHY these books? • Full year of instructional support • Current theory and best practices • Practical ideas for use with and without technology • Specific guidelines for implementation • Student responses to assignments

  31. WHY these books? • Classroom and time management • Suggestions for adapting to various settings • Recommended reading lists • Extensive bibliography • Companion website

  32. HOW can I support you? • Companion Website • Workshops • Seminars • On-line Mentoring • teachinglanguage arts. com

  33. Congratulations and Bon Voyage! New Novice Veteran

  34. Get Yours Today

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