Teachers Speak Out on Creating Literate Young Adolescents

Actively Engaging Middle School Readers: One Teacher's Story
Amber Hammon & Carol Hess
A teacher's journey of discovery results in more engaged middle school readers.

Literature Circles: Meeting Reading Standards, Making Personal Connections, and Appreciating Other Interpretations
Carter Latendresse
Another journey leads to success as a reading teacher who raises test scores while broadening students' minds.

Faculty-Student Book Clubs Create Communities of Readers in Two Urban Middle Schools
Marshall A. George
Faculty-student book clubs can be an effective means to establish a culture of literacy and learning in urban middle schools.

Content Matters: Building Vocabulary and Conceptual Understanding in the Subject Areas
Scott Greenwood
Extensive vocabularies with strong conceptual understanding and good reading comprehension are mutually reinforcing.

Integrating Mathematics, Social Studies, and Language Arts with "A Tale of Two Cities"
Jacqueline Leonard
Architecture served as the unifying concept to integrate math, social studies, and language arts skills.

Departments

The Editor Reflects
Tom Erb
Teachers Taking Charge, Taking Risks

What Research Says
Judith L. Irvin
What Does "Research-Based" Educational Practice Mean in Adolescent Literacy?

Research Into Practice
Karen D. Wood & John Beattie
Meeting the Literacy Needs of Students with ADHD in the Middle School Classroom

30 Years of Advocating for Young Adolescents
Katherine F. Thompson & Elaine R. Homestead
Middle School Organization Through the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s