Professional+Journals+&+Texts

The purpose of this page is to highlight journals and texts that may aid the teaching of reading (literacy) at the middle and secondary levels. Below, I have inserted a report, that you may find helpful, as an example. As one of your participation activities, you are to locate 1 resource (journal or text/report) and insert it, along with a brief description, into the table below. Note: you may not share a title that has previously been listed by your instructor or classmates.


 * ===Name=== || ===Journal Title=== || ===Description of Journal===

|| ===Text/Report Title=== || ===Description of Text/Report===

|| || Drew DeLorenzo Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 55(1) September 2011 doi:1 0.1 598/J AAL.55.1 .3 © 2011 International Reading Association (pp. 25-34) Elrod || Middle School Journal: Enhancing Literacy for All Students || This journal is supported by AMLE (Association for Middle Level Education) and offers current articles of teaching strategies/practices, research, and variety of educational perspectives on an array of topics. || "Four Components to Promote Literacy Engagement in Subject Matter Disciplines" || This particular article focuses on using choice, accessibility, rereading, and supported reading to promote literacy engagement.
 * Melissa Comer || //The ALAN Review// || This journal focuses on YAL, offering book reviews, teaching strategies, and research reports. It is endorsed by NCTE. || "10 Years of Research of Adolescent Literacy, 1994-2004: A Review" || This report reviews recent trends relating to adolescent literacy. It examines the impact of culture, interest, and academic capabilities on students' learning.
 * ===**Name**=== || ===**Journal Title**=== || ===**Description of Journal**=== || ===**Text/Report Title**=== || ===**Description of Text/Report**=== ||
 * Jenny

http://www.amle.org/portals/0/pdf/msj/nov2012.pdf || Heard || International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education || This journal is one of twelve journals written under the International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education which discuss literacy, reading fluency and reading achievement. || "Reading Fluency in the Middle and Secondary Grades" || "Reading Fluency in the Middle and Secondary Grades" reports on recognizing fluency issues and the characteristics of fluent/non-fluent learners and how to build fluency while using different proven strategies. The journal also focuses on the relationship between fluency and comprehension.
 * Krissy

[|International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education]

|| [|Integrated Middle School Literacy Instruction]
 * Kimberly Doss || Middle School Journal || This journal is a professional publication and a benefit of the Association of Middle Level Education (AMLE). It is published five times a year and promotes quality middle level education. || "Integrated Middle School Literacy Instruction" || This article focuses on a Student Team Reading and Writing Program in a middle school classroom. It discusses the integration of Reading and English class with literacy skills including learning to read, developing fluency, comprehension, reading to learn information, and writing to convey information. Students learn literacy skills by doing meaningful instructional tasks with explicit reading and writing instruction for both reading and language arts instruction.

|| Close Reading as an Intervention for Struggling Middle School Readers
 * Meagan Kessell || Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy || The Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy is a peer-reviewed journal focused on "the teaching of reading to adolescents and adults". || "Close Readings as an Intervention for Struggling Middle School Readers" || This article points out the need for literacy intervention on behalf of many middle school children. It discusses the need for reading intervention and focuses on the idea of "close reading". The study focused on close reading features of short, complex passages, repeated reading, annotation, text-dependent questions and discussion of the text with students.

|| [|The Evolution of Quality Teaching and Four Questions for Change] ||
 * Alicia Watson || The Phi Delta Kappan || The Phi Delta Kappan is a professional magazine for anyone who cares about K-12 education. It’s an influential publication that features articles about classroom practice, policy, research, professional issues, and innovations in education. || "The Evolution of Quality Teaching and Four Questions for Change" || The article seeks to determine teaching quality through a combination of observations, surveys, and test scores. Recognizing those measures fail to answer the most important questions about quality teaching: How is it accomplished? How has this teacher used questioning today, and what drove her to do so? How has this teacher decided to assess students’ understanding of a text and what drove her decision to do so? An argument is made that quality lies in a lesson’s active ingredients, not just in its final products.