Stenhouse Newslinks
September 14, 2007
C O N T E N T S
1) Janet Allen's Inside Words: online now
2) Have you seen the new Stenhouse website?
3) Author Conversations: Debbie Diller
4) PD Corner: Art and literacy
5) Turning kids into readers
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1) Janet Allen's Inside Words: online now
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"I have become increasingly aware of how significant vocabulary
instruction is in content classrooms. As I studied the research, I
was struck by the exponential impact of teaching students academic
vocabulary as a way to increase word knowledge and background
knowledge. Learners would not only know more about the content,
but they would also know the language used inside the content."
Janet Allen's new book, Inside Words, combines current research on
vocabulary instruction with hands-on instructional strategies and
classroom examples to show teachers what effective content
vocabulary instruction looks like. Building on her best-selling
books Words, Words, Words and Tools for Teaching Content Literacy,
Janet presents over twenty strategies for teaching academic
vocabulary that:
- build background knowledge;
- teach words that are critical to comprehension;
- provide support during reading and writing;
- develop conceptual frameworks for themes, topics, and units of
study; and
- assess students' understanding of words and concepts.
Inside Words will help you make vocabulary in informational texts
accessible and meaningful to your students. The book will be
available in print early next month, but you can browse the entire
text online and pre-order your copy now:
http://www.stenhouse.com/0399.asp?r=n121
Inside Words: Tools for Teaching Academic Vocabulary, Grades 6-12
Janet Allen * Available in early October
128 pp/paper + CD-ROM with printable graphic organizers in both
English and Spanish * $18.50
http://www.stenhouse.com/0399.asp?r=n121
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2) Have you seen the new Stenhouse website?
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We just launched a new website! You'll find:
- expanded and updated information about our authors;
- a form you can use to request help booking our authors for a
speaking or consulting engagement;
- new and improved design and navigation, with enhanced searching;
- a section for college instructors with free course handouts and
book suggestions for specific courses.
Take a tour here:
http://www.stenhouse.com/html/news_12.htm?r=n121
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3) Author Conversations: Debbie Diller
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"Many teachers that I work with get literacy work stations going
in their classrooms, find the structure really workable, and then
adapt it to math using their math materials and manipulatives. I
also see teachers in upper grades integrating more content area
information into their work stations."
In today's podcast, Debbie Diller tells us how her work with
primary literacy work stations has been expanded to higher grades
and into content areas:
http://www.stenhouse.com/dillerpodcast.htm?r=n121
Learn more about Debbie's work and browse her books and videos
here:
http://www.stenhouse.com/html/authorbios_22.htm?r=n121
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4) PD Corner: Art and literacy
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"How do I know what I think till I see what I say?"
--E.M. Forster
Looking to make art connections? The arts--specifically drawing,
painting, or graphic arts--often motivate students. The ArtsEdge
website has hundreds of lessons that are searchable by art
subject, content area, and grade range. Each lesson comes complete
with objectives, supplies, and links to resources and rubrics:
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/teach/les.cfm
Turn that "Who Am I?" narrative into a work of art: comic art.
Autobiographical Comic Strips is one of 16 projects on the
University of Illinois at Chicago's Spiral website. You'll find
how-to descriptions, worksheets, student samples, artist profiles,
and more. Students are bound to be engaged by the process and
you'll love the products! Display them for open house or parent
night and build community by sharing your students' stories while
celebrating their creative works:
http://www.stenhouse.com/rdAutoComic.htm
"Draw Me A Story, Dance Me A Poem: Integrating Expressive Arts
Fosters Emergent Literacy" by Judy Potter summarizes how teachers
can use the arts to develop literacy. Well-organized and succinct,
this article is a good starting place for professionals who want
to read up on the link between the arts and literacy:
http://www.wiu.edu/thecenter/articles/draw2.html
Rich with voice and filled with classroom anecdotes, Talking,
Drawing, Writing by Martha Horn and Mary Ellen Giacobbe revels in
art, language, and literacy. The book is more than a collection of
lessons integrating talking, drawing, and writing--it is the story
of a professional journey replete with reflection from which all
of us can learn. The lessons Horn and Giacobbe experienced with
Boston teachers and primary students fuel the journey. You can
browse the entire book online:
http://www.stenhouse.com/0456.asp?r=n121
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5) Turning kids into readers
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Teacher Magazine is running a three-part series featuring Donalyn
Miller, a sixth-grade teacher from Texas who calls herself the
"Book Whisperer." In Part I Miller shares some of the techniques
she uses to turn kids into readers, and in Part II she offers
advice on motivating reluctant readers and encouraging parent
involvement:
Part I
http://www.stenhouse.com/rdTMSeries1.htm
Part II
http://www.stenhouse.com/rdTMSeries2.htm
Part III, to be published next week, will include a list of
"Thirteen Books You Have to Read Before You Turn Thirteen."
If you're looking for more ideas for finding the right books for
your students and giving them what they need to become lifelong
readers, check out Teri Lesesne's books Making the Match and Naked
Reading. You can read Chapter 1 of each book online:
Making the Match
http://www.stenhouse.com/0381.asp?r=n121
Naked Reading
http://www.stenhouse.com/0416.asp?r=n121
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