ANNA J. SMALL ROSEBORO, National Board Certified Teacher

Teaching Middle School Language Arts

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?

WHO is Anna J. Small Roseboro?

WifeMotherTeacher (5 states)NBCT (EA/ELA)Writing Project Fellow

WHAT is Platform for Writing?

Classroom (Gr. 7-12)Department ChairAdministratorCollege ProfessorMentor

WHAT ’s in the Books?

RationalesLesson PlansStudent WorkDiagramsAssessmentsTechnology TipsGrammar and SpeechReading ListsMy own writing

Tables of Contents

Teaching Reading Foreword: Carol Jago, Past NCTE President

Teaching Writing Foreword: Terry BigelowPreface: “Getting to the Core of Language Arts

Instruction”Dr. Quentin J. Schultze, Calvin College Professor

Table of Contents, con’t

IntroductionAnna J. Small Roseboro (Theoretical

Foundation)Teaching Young Adolescents- “Captain your

ship.” (p.11)

Teaching Middle School Language Arts: Incorporating Twenty-first Century Literacies p. 9

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. ….

Balancing Structure with Choices

Balancing Structure with Choices

Teaching Middle School Language Arts: Incorporating Twenty-first Century Literacies p. 9

“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

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

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.))

Sample Chapters from Teaching Reading

Taking T.I.M.E. to Teach Poetry

Words, Words, WordsWords stir me

When I hear them,When I read them,When I write them,When I speak them.

Words urge meTo keep listeningTo keep readingTo keep writing

To keep speaking.

 Let me hear you,

so I can know you.

Let me speak,so you can know me.

 

Prodigiously stirring words

help me know you.And viscerally urging words

help me know me. by Anna J.Roseboro

Opening the Past Imaginatively: Teaching Historical Fiction

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)

Sample Chapters – Teaching Writing

Playing It Right: Reading, Performing and Writing Drama

Speaking of Grammars: Public Speaking and Media Arts

Sample Chapters – Teaching Writing

Celebrating Names: A Unit about Community and Identity

Appendix and Bibliography

Collage AssignmentBook ReportsEvaluating Student Written Short StoryPrompts for Telling T.I.M.E. in PoetryMyth Play Check-ListOutline for Problem Solving SpeechPeer Evaluation Rubric

GETTING TO KNOW OUR READING MATERIALS

SAMPLE LESSON

Introducing/Reviewing Text Features

Anthologies, Magazines and Textbooks

Fiction and Non-FictionIMAGE

Table of Content vs INDEX

Image

National Geographic

Your name: Noting Text and Graphic Features

Text Feature Title and Page How did it help you?

Chart

Diagram

Glossary

Graph

Graphic Organizer

Heading

I llustration

I ndex

Map

Picture/ Caption

Print Styles (Bold, I talics, Color)

Subheading

Video – Non-Fiction Features Rap

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 ideasParent of teacher education studentTE Prof or Mentor

WHERE are books being used?

Middle School ClassroomsHigh School ClassroomsCollege ClassroomsHome School Kitchen TablesScience ClassroomDistrict/Curriculum WorkshopsHomes of Non-Teachers

(My sister now writes poetry.)

WHY these books?Full year of

instructional supportCurrent theory and

best practicesPractical ideas for

use with and without technology

Specific guidelines for implementation

Student responses to assignments

WHY these books?

Classroom and time management Suggestions for adapting to various settingsRecommended reading listsExtensive bibliographyCompanion website

HOW can I support you?

Companion WebsiteWorkshopsSeminarsOn-line Mentoring

teachinglanguage arts. com

STUDENT CHOICE: TEACHER CONTROL

Workshop Series Experience the lessons and follow guidelines for adapting them for individual classroom settings.

Do it, make it, take it.

*Taking T.I.M.E. for Poetry: Strategies for Reading, Writing, Discussing and Analyzing Poetry

*Writing Lots; Grading Less; Learning More: Strategies for Assigning More Writing Across the Curriculum without Suffocating under the Paper Load

*Using Art to Teach and to Test: Lessons for Using Art to Explain, to Explore and to Expand the Study of Literature

*Shakespeare: Out Loud and in Color: Bring the bard alive using lessons appealing to multiple intelligences.

Maximizing the Use of Literature Anthologies: Designing Scavenger Hunts and Genre Units

Congratulations and Bon Voyage!