Connecting Adolescents and Reading: Goals at the Middle Level.

摘要: ■■Of my 13 years of public school teaching, 1 spent 9 in middle schools. Those were the days (and not so long ago) when teachers often seemed simply to land at level on their way high teaching or up from elementary school. The former was true for me. I wanted teach But something happened. liked kids, and found career choices gravitating purposefully level, students who vacillated between innocence surprising maturity savvy, who, if sufficiently compelled by classroom, apt channel energies into hurling spitballs walls, or, ventriloquist-like, sending indecipherable noises opposite corners room. Since beginnings movement U.S., which can be traced back mid 1960s, much about education has changed. Carnegie Council's report Turning Points (1989) published. National Middle School Association (NMSA) grown 20,000 voting members throughout United States, Canada, Europe. My work with learners continued, a slight shift focus teacher preparation; along question emerged did have ready answer: What should our goals reading? Or, put another way, what target will best support early adolescents' development reading learning text? A search ERIC documents past decade suggests steadily increasing interest is, sues related students. From 1980 1983, listed 29 such arti-