October 2008

What, When, and How? - Virtual Trip Through Online Resources, In-Service Presentation on October 10, 2008, is published at http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=df93ks3_51dj9jjjg5&hl=en. This description of the online databases will help you to choose materials for your classes and recommend sources to your students.

Teacher Resources - Professional Materials: general resources and lesson plans, downloadable and printable materials, links for subjects, and other! See at the Library Webpage under "Teachers' Favorites" - choose "Sites for Teachers" at the bottom of the page or click http://wbais.org/%7Eaislibrary/New_Library_Page/library.php?id=486 to go to Teachers' Resources Page

Library Catalog Accounts - You can ask us at the front desk for a username and password for Destiny to see what books are checked out to your name, create lists of books that can be shared with your students, and save searches for future references .

Professional Magazines:
MAILBOX magazines: As subscribers to Mailbox magazines we have an access to Mailbox Companion. Log in into Mailbox membership and use a variety of printables resources accompanying materials from the magazines: https://www.theeducationcenter.com/cgi-bin/tec/page.jsp?NAME=MagazinesMailboxCompanion&route=leftnavmbxcomp&BV_SessionID=@@@@0060353934.1224524968@@@@&BV_EngineID=ddadeeghlhddjbffkcglcfmdgmg.0

Fall Resources for Mailbox magazines can be found at
http://www.theeducationcenter.com/TextFiles/Email/te/te_pricomp_102008.html

Teacher Helper: Kindergarden, October/November 2008 issue features the following articles: Patterning, Letter Names and Sounds, Pumkins, Uppercase and Lowercase Letters, The Very Busy Spider,Basic Needs of Living Things,Seasonal & Holiday

Weekly Reader Magazines -
Weekly Reader (WR) Magazines are available via Facts for Learning http://www.factsforlearning.com/e-weekly-reader.aspx
WR BOOST, A New Tool For Teachers, also gives your students online access to Current Events stories and Current Science (Middle School), WR News (Editions 2, 3, and Senior) (Elementary School). Students can earn points for taking quizzes about those stories, and you get useful reports outlining how they did. Interested? To sign up, please click on the following link, or copy and paste it into your browser: http://wrteachers.uboost.com/teachers/new?linked_referer=aislibrary





NCTE magazines
As soon as you log in into our NCTE membership subscription (user name: aislibrary3, password: aislibrary3), you can see
the NCTE membership home page with an access to all the professional journals and their full text articles (see menu on the left side of the page). You can read current and back issues of all the journals and learn about the issues that we yet have not received.

This Month we've received:

Council Chronicle, September ussie, Issue Theme: Writing Now. What Is Writing in the 21st Century?
Table of Contents:

Dig Deeper:
Check out resources related to topics in this issue of The Council Chronicle, from books to professional development to the Annual Convention!

“Writing after the Storm” Thoughts from 2008 CCCC Presenter Deborah Alvarez


Stories of Us: Students and Film Director Collaborate
Anti-Bullying Film Project Captivates Students— and Gives a Glimpse of 21st Century Literacies in the Classroom.

Jimmy Santiago Baca: Poetry as Lifesaver: Poetry helped transform Baca from prisoner to teacher.

Students at the Center of Learning This New Orleans writing program offers a “transformative learning experience.”

President’s Commentary
Planning for a Future Very Different from Our Past, by Kathleen Blake Yancey, 2007-2008 NCTE President

Advocacy for the 21st Century: Where Are You? A piece by Susan Houser

Centennial Celebration: NCTE Turns 100 Learn more about the Centennial Celebration

Writing Now: An NCTE Policy Research Brief This research brief provides research-based recommendations for teaching writing in a changing world. In addition to the online version, members will find this new policy brief in print in the center of their September 2008 Council Chronicle.

Reader’s Commentary It’s Not about the Technology, by Carla Beard



English Journal, September issue, Issue Theme: “Once More Unto the Breach, Dear Friends”: Beginning Another Year
Table of Contents:
From the Editor - Ken Lindblom
From the Secondary Section: Meet Me in San Antonio! - Diane Waff
In Memoriam: Margaret J. Early: NCTE President, 1974 - Ben F. Nelms
EJ in Focus: Energy and Enthusiasm: Don’t Start the School Year without Them - Nancy Mack
Teacher to Teacher: What Are Some Innovative Assignment Ideas for a Good Start to a New School Year? - Sandi Marinella; Lisa Winkler; Jonathan Tsui
Incorporating Student Choice: Reflective Practice and the Courage to Change - Katie Dredger
My New Teaching Partner? Using the Grammar Checker in Writing Instruction - Reva Potter and Dorothy Fuller
Everything I Need to Know about Teaching I Learned from Beowulf - Ruth R. Caillouet
“It Sounds Like Me”: Using Creative Nonfiction to Teach College Admissions Essays - Jennifer Wells
Activities to Create Yearlong Momentum - Molly Berger
Playing the Classroom-as-Game: Building a Community of Learners at the Start of a New Year - David Lee Carlson
Beginning with the Students: Ownership through Reflection and Goal-Setting - Marisa Harford
How I Spent My Summer Vacation: Teachers Describe Their NEH Seminar and NWP Experiences - A. Richard Broan; Kate Pezanowski; Jill VanHimbergen
The 2007 Honor List: A Harvest from the World at Large - Alleen Pace Nilsen, James Blasingame Jr., and Ken Donelson
Challenging Texts - P. L. Thomas, editor
Innovative Writing Instruction - Valerie Kinloch, editor
Mentoring Matters - Thomas M. McCann and Larry Johannessen, editors
Off the Shelves - Mark Letcher, editor
Success with ELLs - Margo DelliCarpini, editor
Speaking My Mind: Dear Mr. Shakespeare: Please Stay Out of My Middle School English Class! - Mike Roberts, editor

Language Arts, September issue, Explaining Change: Theories in Action
Table of Contents:
Thoughts from the Editors: Learning and Literacy in Action
Every Mark on the Page: Educating Family and Community Members about Young Children’s Writing - Kate Foley Cusumano
Writing and Painting Our Lives into Being: School, Home, and the Larger Community as Transformative Spaces for Learning - Ralph A. Córdova, Jr.
Building Relationships with Theory: Signs and Tools in Everyday Life - Meredith Whittaker
Negotiating a Top-Down Reading Program Mandate: The Experiences of One School - Lucinda Pease-Alvarez and Katharine Davies Samway
Focus on Policy: Shaping Policy through Collective Research - Michelle Proctor and Peter Demerath
Research Directions: In Praise of Wiggle Room: Locating Comprehension in Unlikely Places - Maren Aukerman
Professional Book Reviews: From Theory to Practice: Vygotsky, Sociocultural Research, and Classroom Assessment - Jessica C. Zacher
Profiles and Perspectives: “On the Psycholinguistic Method of Teaching Reading” Revisited - Frank Smith and Kenneth S. Goodman
Children’s Literature Reviews: Changes and Transformations in Children’s Folklore and Fantasy - Barbara Z. Kiefer
In Closing…: Learning - Joanne Durham


Voices from the Middle, September issue, A Rest Stop: Time for an Open Call
Table of Contents:
“The way they act around a bunch of people”: Seventh-grade Writers Learn about Themselves in the Midst of Others - Jane Hansen
Engaging as Ethnographers: Insights from the Collaborative Study of a Literacy Learning Community - Katie Van Sluys
Who Is DeAndre? Tapping the Power of Popular culture in Literacy Learning - Jesse Gainer
Power, Voice, and Empowerment: Classroom Committees in a Middle Level Language Arts Curriculum - Jill Bryant and Stephen Daniels
Next Steps in the Journey: Staking Identity and Making Relationships: Considerations for the Future of Literacy and Schooling - Jeff Wilhelm
Books for Young Adolescents: Taking a Rest along the Journey - Shawn Bird and Vickey M. Giles
Stories along the Way: Wings, Shoes, Stories, Truths - Penny Kittle
New Puzzles/Next Moves: Webquests: A Literacy/Technology Practice That Fosters Adolescents’ Curiosity - Nancy Shanklin
Student to Student: Harry Potter and the Avid Readers - Kim Ford
Technology Toolkit: Making a Difference in the World - Sandy Hayes
Professional Reading for Middle Level Educators: Renewing and Reinvigorating Literacy Practices - Penny Silvers
Bumps in the Road: A Worthwhile Detour? The Reading Coach - Wanda B. Hedrick
Postcard from the Middle Level Section - Jim Johnston
Call for Manuscripts


NCTE magazines are kept in the library (current issues are in Professional Display) and available for checking out.

Looking forward to seeing you in the Library and hearing your feed back, questions, and recommendations.