Education 492 
English in the Middle Level and High School Education
Robert Egolf, PhD.
(Spring 2002)

Textbooks

There are three series of literature textbooks in our Curriculum Materials Collection,
FM Library Media Center

FM-0-MEDIA 800 E38
Elements of literature / [Robert Anderson ... et al.].  Annotated teacher's edition.
Grades 7-12. Austin, TX : Holt, Rinehart and Winston : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993.

FM-0-MEDIA 800 P927
Prentice Hall literature / master teacher board, Nanette Koelsch ... [et al.].   Annotated teacher's edition.  Grades 6-12. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 1991.

FM-0-MEDIA 800 S368
Scholastic scope literature / edited by Katherine Robinson.  Annotated teacher's edition.  Grades 6-12.  New York, N.Y.:  Scholastic Text Division, 1991.

Web-Accessible Resources

Pennsylvania Department of Education. Academic Standards for Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening  (22 Pennsylvania Code Chapter 4 Appendix)   http://www.pde.psu.edu/standard/reading.pdf

Building Reading Proficiency at the Secondary Level: A Guide to Resources (Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, 2001)  http://www.sedl.org/pubs/reading16/welcome.html

Cognitive Foundations of Learning to Read: A Framework (Southwest Educational Development Laboratory)  http://www.sedl.org/reading/framework/research.html

Each "frame" has references to the literature, such as the frame on DECODING-- "Early and systematic emphasis on decoding leads to better achievement than late or more haphazard approaches."  Adams, 1990; Chall, 1989; Chall, 1996; Share, 1995; Snow, Burns, and Griffin, 1998

ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication
http://eric.indiana.edu/

Langer, Judith A.  Beating the Odds: Teaching Middle and High School Students To Read and Write Well.
64 p.  in PDF.  Takes a few seconds to download from the Libraries' E*Subscribe ED435993

National Council of Teachers of English http://www.ncte.org/

Rationales for Challenged Books at http://www.ncte.org/censorship/rationales.shtml
NCTE's Standards for the English Language Arts http://www.ncte.org/standards/standards.shtml

National Research Center on English Learning & Achievement (CELA)
http://cela.albany.edu/default.htm

CELA LINKS
http://cela.albany.edu/links.htm

From the Quote Bank at  http://fac-staff.seattleu.edu/kschlnoe/quotes.html

"A few years ago, after sharing portfolios and reading response journals with parents, one woman still wasn't convinced. I took her through her daughter's writing, pointing out the level of sophistication and mastery of usage and mechanics in a meaningful context.
"But when are you going to teach her to diagram sentences?"
"Why?" I asked.
"Damn it," she said, slamming her fist on the table. "I suffered through it in school, and she will, too."
Not in my classroom, I thought. Not in my classroom."

    Linda Rief. Seeking Diversity: Language Arts with Adolescents, 180.

Compiled by Jean M. Johnson 1/02 & 3/1/02
Librarian for Education
jean.johnson@lehigh.edu