Teaching Middle School Language Arts: Incorporating Twenty-First Century Literacies

For new and experienced middle school teachers, Roseboro, a veteran English language arts teacher with experience in public and private schools, explains how to teach language arts using a plan that is theory-based, student-centered, aligned with standards, and progresses towards more independent student work. She provides specific assignments for the course of the school year that incorporate old and new media and apply National Writing Project concepts for planning, assignments, and assessment. Lessons show how to get students to work together, understand the story and genre, explore traditional and contemporary grammars, discuss and write short stories, and read twentieth-century novels, classical fiction, poetry, historical fiction, and drama, in addition to public speaking and researching names. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Anna J. Small Roseboro is a former National Board Certified Teacher with forty years of experience. Anna has been a faculty leader at the NCTE Affiliates Leadership Conference and served as master teacher for the San Francisco Bay Area Teachers Center in an online teaching environment. In 2009, she was honored with the California Association of Teachers of English 2009 Distinguished Service Award.