/24-7PressRelease/ - GAINESVILLE, FL, June 15, 2007 -- Turn your struggling readers into successful readers with literacy centers created especially for middle-school students. This easy-to-use resource provides teacher directions, student directions, and reproducibles for forty center activities structured around the "Big Ten" areas of reading that all students must master: main idea, cause and effect, compare and contrast, vocabulary in context, sequence of events, literature terms, fact and opinion, author's purpose, reference and research, and summarizing.
Using a variety of literature genres, from fiction and autobiographies to newspaper articles and anecdotal records, these classroom-tested centers allow students to apply, practice, and master the skills and strategies that will make them better readers and writers.
A bonus pretest skill set requires students to synthesize the "Big Ten" skills they've learned and provides teachers with a helpful assessment tool to use before students take the state writing test. Suggested strategies, materials lists, and targeted student goals for each center guide teacher preparation, and grading rubrics ensure all students know what is expected of them at each center. These classroom-proven centers are ready to go to save middle-school teachers time and energy. A bibliography and list of suggested professional resources offer additional assistance with classroom management and skills instruction.
About the Author
Lynette Prevatte is a National Board Certified English teacher in Florida, where she has taught middle school for twelve years. She also works with the College Board as both a Pre-AP English Vertical Teams consultant and a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation EXCELerator Trainer.
About Maupin House
Maupin House publishes professional resources for K-12 educators with a focus on writing craft, writing workshop, reading comprehension, language arts, G.U.M. skills, and research process. Please contact us at (800) 524-0634.
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