Collaborations for Literacy

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ROCHELLE B. SENATOR is the recipient of the International Reading Association's Middle School Special Interest Group Literacy Award for 1994. She retired in 1994 after 25 years as a library media specialist. During the last 11 years she developed and coordinated the reading comprehension program for the newly created sixth grade and brought resource-based learning to the middle school in New Canaan, Connecticut. She has presented workshops at the National Council of Teachers of English, at Connecticut Institutes for Teaching and Learning, and at the Connecticut Educational Media Association, among others. Currently she is consultant to several school systems and is the Connecticut coordinator for Count on Reading, a national literacy initiative of the American Library Association.

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The best of middle school teaching is learning by doing and is interdisciplinary. This book ties it all together and offers a complete, innovative program, from vision, through planning, implementation, and assessment. The program is accomplished through the collaboration of the school library media specialist and the language arts teacher. Senator outlines ways in which they can collaboratively plan, teach, and assess units which use language arts as tools. She includes specific instructional programs, suggestions for staff development, examples of questions, organizers, and units for grades six through eight, ideas for creating schedules, and methods of working together to develop materials for instruction.

This program reflects the restructuring movement in American education. It emphasizes process as well as content, uses authentic material, and stresses interdisciplinary learning and learning by doing. The first part deals with literature as a subject and offers many practical units for the library media specialist and the language arts teacher to use in collaboratively teaching students inquiry and a framework for literature. Armed with these tools, students are able to read, discuss, think, and write about more challenging and interesting literature. Senator offers many ideas for extending literature through creative dramatics, storytelling, booktalks, and book shares. The second half of the book shows how to plan interdisciplinary units so that students, through resource-based learning, may learn to use new technologies and information problem-solving. The work also includes some units for elementary and secondary schools. Because of its innovative methods and practical ideas it will be a boon to library media specialists, language arts and English teachers, reading specialists, and library schools and undergraduate and graduate schools of education.

Résumé
The first part deals with literature as a subject and offers many practical units for the library media specialist and the language arts teacher to use in collaboratively teaching students inquiry and a framework for literature.

Contenu

Introduction Creating an Integrated Language Arts Program through Collaboration with the LMS Inquiry Teaching in a Literature-based Program Teaching a Framework of Literature: The Four Plots Extending the Literature Program Resource-Based Learning and the Information Problem-Solving Process Resource-Based Units for Grades 6, 7, and 8 Uses of Technology in an Integrated Language Arts Program Adapting Collaborative Integrated Language Arts Programs to Other Levels: Examples in Elementary and High Schools Factors that Foster Collaboration and Examples of Collaborative Planning by Teams Bibliography Index