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April 15, 2005

C O N T E N T S

1) Teaching Reading to Black Adolescent Males
2) PD Corner: New Read, Share, Teach (RST) workshop
3) Mid-South Reading & Writing Institute, June 17-18
4) Words that reinforce read-aloud
5) Discuss Socratic circles on-line

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1) Teaching Reading to Black Adolescent Males
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"My older son was placed at gunpoint for the first time in his 
life at the age of three--eleven years earlier in his life than my 
first such experience. Two young black men carjacked my wife and 
son and demanded money. After she told them she had none, they 
forced their way into our home. One of them grabbed my wife by her 
arm, and the other picked up my son, as I have on many occasions. 
I imagine this embrace felt strangely different to him. The 
intruders placed my son on the couch near the door, forced my wife 
upstairs, and proceeded to ransack our house."
--from the introduction of the new book, Teaching Reading to Black 
Adolescent Males, by Alfred W. Tatum

What issues are critical to young black males and their literacy 
development, and how can educators address them? In his new book, 
Alfred Tatum explores the "adolescent shift" that many poor black 
males experience, and the challenges of learning to read among 
turmoil. Rooted in first-hand experiences, this provocative book 
addresses the reading achievement gap, provides a comprehensive 
framework of literacy instruction for young black males, and 
includes guidelines for establishing a professional development 
community.

Teaching Reading to Black Adolescent Males will be available in 
print next month, but you can review the entire book on-line now:

http://www.stenhouse.com/0393.asp?r=n66

Teaching Reading to Black Adolescent Males: Closing the 
Achievement Gap * Alfred W. Tatum
176 pp/paper * $17.50 * Available in early May * Pre-order now
http://www.stenhouse.com/0393.asp?r=n66

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2) PD Corner: New Read, Share, Teach (RST) workshop
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*New Read, Share, Teach (RST) workshop*

A new RST workshop, featuring the book Still Learning to Read and 
the video series Bringing Reading to Life, is now available. It is 
designed to help workshop facilitators lead grades 3-6 teachers 
through discussions, reading, and reflection. You can get your 
copy of the 22-page guide here:

http://www.stenhouse.com/pdfs/rst_0359.pdf?r=n66

For more information about the RST workshop series, including a 
list of all eight workshops, follow this link:

http://www.stenhouse.com/rst.asp?r=n66

*Find a new perspective through writing*

Wallace Stevens' poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" 
has inspired many imitations. Jane Hancock and her colleagues at 
the National Writing Project used the poem to create "Thirteen 
Ways of Looking at Writing." The exercise is readily adaptable 
with students at any grade level and in any subject, when multiple 
perspectives are helpful:
 
http://www.writingproject.org/cs/nwpp/print/nwpr/2144

*Revisit a favorite author*

Most elementary teachers have a dog-eared copy of Charlotte's Web 
somewhere in the classroom, and many high school teachers keep a 
well-worn copy of Elements of Style handy. If you've always 
wondered about the man behind the writing, be sure to read Roger 
Angell's charming remembrance of his stepfather, E.B. "Andy" 
White, in this piece from The New Yorker:
 
http://newyorker.com/fact/content/?050214fa_fact

*Florida Online Reading Professional Development (FOR-PD)*

Hosted by the University of Central Florida, this project serves 
as "a primary delivery mechanism for improving teaching methods in 
preK-12 reading instruction" in Florida. The project's Web site 
features a Reading Strategy of the Month (currently "Developing & 
Assessing Fluency"), and one-page Reading Reminders that summarize 
key literacy teaching practices--perfect for a staff bulletin 
board or prompts for PD discussions:

http://www.itrc.ucf.edu/forpd/

The site's Reading Strategy of the Month archives (going back to 
January 2004) and Reading Reminders are on these two pages:
http://www.itrc.ucf.edu/forpd/strategies/archive.html
http://www.itrc.ucf.edu/forpd/resources/reminders.html

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3) Mid-South Reading & Writing Institute, June 17-18
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Join Stenhouse authors Max Brand, Kathy Collins, Kelly Gallagher, 
Debbie Miller, and Franki Sibberson at the Mid-South Reading & 
Writing Institute, June 17-18 at the University of Alabama at 
Birmingham. Keynote speakers include Alfie Kohn and Gloria Ladson-
Billings; pre-registration by May 14 is only $85:

http://www.lexami.com/2005%20Midsouth/home.htm

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4) Words that reinforce read-aloud 
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In this short article from the Read Aloud International 
newsletter, Mary Lee Hahn illuminates several key benefits that 
flow from read-aloud time and why teachers need to continue this 
practice in the upper elementary grades and beyond:

http://www.readaloudinternational.org/news.html
(Click on the "May 2005" link.)

Mary Lee Hahn is the author of Reconsidering Read-Aloud. You can 
get details on the book, including the entire text of Chapter 1 
and the Study Guide, here:

http://www.stenhouse.com/0351.asp?r=n66

Read Aloud International (RAI) was formed in 2003 and is dedicated 
to providing an international voice for organizations and 
individuals that promote reading aloud. Member organizations 
include statewide groups in Delaware, Nebraska, and Virginia that 
promote reading aloud through school programs, reading volunteers, 
parent education, book lists, and conferences. For more 
information, visit the RAI home page:

http://www.readaloudinternational.org/

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5) Discuss Socratic circles on-line
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Matt Copeland, author of the new book Socratic Circles, has 
created a discussion board for the topic where teachers can share 
experiences and ideas about using Socratic circles in the 
classroom. "Is developing competitive dialogue skills as important 
to student success as developing cooperative dialogue skills are?" 
Join in the discussion:

http://socratic.fetchbook.info/

Review the entire text of Socratic Circles here:

http://www.stenhouse.com/0394.asp?r=n66

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