anna j. small roseboro, national board certified teacher teaching middle school language arts
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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!