Using Technology in Middle Grades Language Arts: Strategies to Improve Student Learning [Paperback]

Whether you are a technophobe or an accomplished in integrating technology into your classroom, this book is for you.Using Technology in Middle Grades Language Artswill provide you with ideas for incorporating technology into your classroom for real results. There are practical how to tips and suggested activities, as well as scores of resources. Often teachers implement technology for the sake of meeting state or local standards. This text not only presents technology applications, but also facilitates reflections on your beliefs and motivation for implementing technology.Katrina Hunter-Mintz was a high school English Language Arts teacher for 13 years before finishing her doctorate in curriculum and instruction at the University of Alabama in 2002. Her teaching includes secondary curriculum and methods, educational technology, P-12 reading instruction and literature, and educational psychology.

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Enhancing Active Learning with Technology
Chapter 3 Using Technology to Respond to Literature
Chapter 4 Spinning the Web with Children's and Young Adult Literature
Chapter 5 Technology, Talking, and Listening to Learn
Chapter 6 Cyber Comp: Technology Tools to Enhance & Inspire Composition
Chapter 7 Word Wizardry
Chapter 8 Visualizing Verse Online
Chapter 9 Gaining Language Wisdom from OWLs, Online Writing Labs
Chapter 10 Music, Movement and Laughter: How Technology Supports Creative and Critical Thinking in Language
Chapter 11 Using Web Tools to Integrate Reading, Writing, Spelling, and Grammar
Chapter 12 Making Media Matter
Chapter 13 Exam Questions
Chapter 14 Glossary