Reading Response That Really Matters to Middle Schoolers: Engaging Mini-Lessons, Strategies, and Activities for Teaching Middle Schoolers to Read and ... Nonfiction (Scholastic Teaching Strategies)

Help for teachers of disengaged middle school readers is here! This innovative collection of strategies and activities draws on middle schoolers' desire to "be heard" by placing them in the position of reviewer, editor, and critic of their reading assignments. Response activities are designed in purposeful formats including postcards, memos, book reviews, letters to textbook editors, and revision proposals. They also include ideas for differentiating activities to reach students with a range of abilities. For use with Grades 5-9.Larry Lewin is the author of 'Reading Response That Really Matters to Middle Schoolers: Engaging Mini-Lessons, Strategies, and Activities for Teaching Middle Schoolers to Read and ... Nonfiction (Scholastic Teaching Strategies)', published 2006 under ISBN 9780439796040 and ISBN 0439796040.