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There's Room for Me Here: Literacy Workshop in the Middle School

What do you do with students who cannot or will not read and write? This portrait of Kyle Gonzalezs classroom offers teachers theory-based strategies for helping students become motivated and successful readers and writers. You will see how one middle school teacher sets up her literacy classroom, offers intervention and support for struggling students, and assesses their progress. Rich in description of Kyles successes, the book also looks honestly at why some practices were ineffective in her setting. With Janets and Kyles practical and detailed suggestions for creating a literate environment, youll learn how to:establish a literacy workshop; choose and use effective resources; implement effective, informative record-keeping; help students establish goals and assess progress; use read-alouds as well as shared, guided, and independent reading and writing; instill reading and writing practices that help students read content-specific texts. Theres Room for Me Here includes record-keeping forms, extensive bibliographies of literature and professional materials, resource information, and samples of strategy lessons all embedded in this engaging story of a teachers first three years building a literacy workshop in her classroom. Kyles students are middle school learners who struggle with literacy. The strategies, content-area connections, and management ideas, however, are applicable and appropriate for use by any 3-12 teacher.

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