Kingen, Sharon
Description
This text is designed specifically to meet the needs of preservice teachers who have had little experience working in middle-grade classrooms. Three i
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deas are central: * teaching language arts at the middle level is a complex activity that demands expertise in the use of a variety of strategies, * reading and writing are key processes of language arts study, but so are speaking, listening, and viewing/visually representing, and * teaching the processes of effective communication is crucial, but middle school students must also begin to learn the content of the field--literature, language,
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