Readings

Literacy Stampede Write Beside Them (opening chapters) Building a Scene Elements of Voice Peer Response (Vopat) || __**Cull**__ ELL Focus: Best || [] ||  || __**Notebook**__ We used Randy Bomer's chapter from //Time for Meaning// on Day 2. An alternative is Chapter 4 from //Write Beside Them//. It's short, folowed by a pretty long chapter on quickwrites. __**Introduction to Digital Literacies**__ Readings we used last year were okay, but I kind of like this chapter of Kajder's, even though it was published in 2007: "Unleashing Potential with Emerging Technologies" from //Adolescent Literacy: Turning Promise Into Practice// edited by Klene Beers, Robert E. Probst, and Linda Rief (Heinemann). Web comic on 6th graders' use of technology: []
 * __**Keepers**__
 * Did we use "30 Ideas for Teaching Writing" from the NWP site last year?
 * Acceptable from 2011/Possibilities for 2012:**

__**Graphic Novels**__ "Using Graphic Texts in Secondary Classrooms: A Tale of Endurance." //EJ// May 2012 __**English Language Learners**__ "Make Room for Our Voices: Using Poetry In Professional Development for Secondary ESL and ELA Teachers." //EJ// January 2012 "We Are All Writers! Building Second Language Writing Skills in the ELA Classroom." //EJ// May 2012 __**Workshop--General**__ "A Snapshot of Writing Instruction in Middle Schools and High Schools." (Applebee and Langer) //EJ// July 2011 An overview of workshop, with a community connection: "Inviting Parents In: Expanding Our Community Base to Support Writing." //EJ// March 2012 Reading-Writing Connections: "Fostering Meaningful Middle School Literacy Learning: Investigating Beliefs and Practices." //Voices from the Middle// Sept. 2011 __**Digital or New Literacies**__ "Webcomic Analysis: State of Student Technology" []
 * New possibilities:**

"Risks, Rewards, and Responsibilities of Using New Literacies in Middle Grades." //Voices in the Middle// May 2012 "Twenty-First-Century Adolescents, Writing, and New Media: Meeting the Challenge with Game Controllers and Laptops." //EJ// November 2011 "Same as it Ever Was: Enacting the Promise of Teaching, Writing, and New Media." (Hicks, Kajder, et al.) //EJ// January 2012 "Digitalk as Community." //EJ// March 2012 "Classrooms that Discourage Plagiarism and Welcome Technology." //EJ// July 2011 __**Notebook/Freewriting**__ Related to writer's notebook, freewriting: "Informal and Shared: Writing to Create Community." //EJ// March 2012 __**Genres**__ Genre + Reading/Writing Connection, using Walter Dean Myers' //Monster//: [] "Where to Begin: Using Place-Based Writing to Connect Students with Their Local Communities." //EJ// March 2012 "Narrative as a Springboard for Expository and Persuasive Writing: James Moffett Revisited." //Voices from the Middle// March 2012 __**Teacher Response**__ "When I Stopped Writing on Their Papers:: Accommodating the Needs of Student Writers with Audio Comments." //EJ// November 2011
 * WALTER DEAN MYERS** //MONSTER// **PORTFOLIO** posted at the University of Minnesota: