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"?Senator offers detailed practical approaches for collaboration between library media specialist (LMS) and classroom teacher to empower students for lifelong reading and thinking...This book is comprehensive within its brevity, providing a wealth of sample units including excellent student worksheets, numerous questions as paradigms for inquiry-based learning, and practical suggestions for making the program effective for all. Although the book targets students of middle-school age, it applies the concepts to both elementary and high school. Because of its comprehensive nature, Senator's book is valuable for teachers of secondary English who must work solo without the aid of an LMS. In addition, the book has potential for university classes in Adolescent Literature and/or Methods of Teaching English...Senator's book is excellent and should reach an appreciative audience.?-VOYA ?Teacher-librarians looking for information on the integration of resource-based learning with contemporary language arts practices need look no further...It is rich in content, strong in its proactive stance and deeply-rooted in the need for teacher-librarians to be full partners in the planning, teaching and evaluation of information problem-solving activities...Middle school classroom teachers and teacher-librarians will value the many practical examples given from programs at this level and educators looking for a strong rationale for moving to this type of curriculum will find Senator's description of the vision very useful. She writes in a clear and easy style, with a keen sense of who her readers are. She grounds her arguments in recognized policy documents and in the research in this area, leaving the reader assured and confident that this type of school library program is very possible.?-Emergency Librarian ?This book will help media specialists and language arts teachers, grades 6-8, work together to provide interdisciplinary units...Recommended.?-The Book Report ""Senator offers detailed practical approaches for collaboration between library media specialist (LMS) and classroom teacher to empower students for lifelong reading and thinking...This book is comprehensive within its brevity, providing a wealth of sample units including excellent student worksheets, numerous questions as paradigms for inquiry-based learning, and practical suggestions for making the program effective for all. Although the book targets students of middle-school age, it applies the concepts to both elementary and high school. Because of its comprehensive nature, Senator's book is valuable for teachers of secondary English who must work solo without the aid of an LMS. In addition, the book has potential for university classes in Adolescent Literature and/or Methods of Teaching English...Senator's book is excellent and should reach an appreciative audience.""-VOYA ""This book will help media specialists and language arts teachers, grades 6-8, work together to provide interdisciplinary units...Recommended.""-The Book Report ""Teacher-librarians looking for information on the integration of resource-based learning with contemporary language arts practices need look no further...It is rich in content, strong in its proactive stance and deeply-rooted in the need for teacher-librarians to be full partners in the planning, teaching and evaluation of information problem-solving activities...Middle school classroom teachers and teacher-librarians will value the many practical examples given from programs at this level and educators looking for a strong rationale for moving to this type of curriculum will find Senator's description of the vision very useful. She writes in a clear and easy style, with a keen sense of who her readers are. She grounds her arguments in recognized policy documents and in the research in this area, leaving the reader assured and confident that this type of school library program is very possible.""-Emergency Librarian"

?Teacher-librarians looking for information on the integration of resource-based learning with contemporary language arts practices need look no further...It is rich in content, strong in its proactive stance and deeply-rooted in the need for teacher-librarians to be full partners in the planning, teaching and evaluation of information problem-solving activities...Middle school classroom teachers and teacher-librarians will value the many practical examples given from programs at this level and educators looking for a strong rationale for moving to this type of curriculum will find Senator's description of the vision very useful. She writes in a clear and easy style, with a keen sense of who her readers are. She grounds her arguments in recognized policy documents and in the research in this area, leaving the reader assured and confident that this type of school library program is very possible.?-Emergency Librarian

Teacher-librarians looking for information on the integration of resource-based learning with contemporary language arts practices need look no further...It is rich in content, strong in its proactive stance and deeply-rooted in the need for teacher-librarians to be full partners in the planning, teaching and evaluation of information problem-solving activities...Middle school classroom teachers and teacher-librarians will value the many practical examples given from programs at this level and educators looking for a strong rationale for moving to this type of curriculum will find Senator's description of the vision very useful. She writes in a clear and easy style, with a keen sense of who her readers are. She grounds her arguments in recognized policy documents and in the research in this area, leaving the reader assured and confident that this type of school library program is very possible. -Emergency Librarian This book will help media specialists and language arts teachers, grades 6-8, work together to provide interdisciplinary units...Recommended. -The Book Report Senator offers detailed practical approaches for collaboration between library media specialist (LMS) and classroom teacher to empower students for lifelong reading and thinking...This book is comprehensive within its brevity, providing a wealth of sample units including excellent student worksheets, numerous questions as paradigms for inquiry-based learning, and practical suggestions for making the program effective for all. Although the book targets students of middle-school age, it applies the concepts to both elementary and high school. Because of its comprehensive nature, Senator's book is valuable for teachers of secondary English who must work solo without the aid of an LMS. In addition, the book has potential for university classes in Adolescent Literature and/or Methods of Teaching English...Senator's book is excellent and should reach an appreciative audience. -VOYA ?This book will help media specialists and language arts teachers, grades 6-8, work together to provide interdisciplinary units...Recommended.?-The Book Report ?Senator offers detailed practical approaches for collaboration between library media specialist (LMS) and classroom teacher to empower students for lifelong reading and thinking...This book is comprehensive within its brevity, providing a wealth of sample units including excellent student worksheets, numerous questions as paradigms for inquiry-based learning, and practical suggestions for making the program effective for all. Although the book targets students of middle-school age, it applies the concepts to both elementary and high school. Because of its comprehensive nature, Senator's book is valuable for teachers of secondary English who must work solo without the aid of an LMS. In addition, the book has potential for university classes in Adolescent Literature and/or Methods of Teaching English...Senator's book is excellent and should reach an appreciative audience.?-VOYA ?Teacher-librarians looking for information on the integration of resource-based learning with contemporary language arts practices need look no further...It is rich in content, strong in its proactive stance and deeply-rooted in the need for teacher-librarians to be full partners in the planning, teaching and evaluation of information problem-solving activities...Middle school classroom teachers and teacher-librarians will value the many practical examples given from programs at this level and educators looking for a strong rationale for moving to this type of curriculum will find Senator's description of the vision very useful. She writes in a clear and easy style, with a keen sense of who her readers are. She grounds her arguments in recognized policy documents and in the research in this area, leaving the reader assured and confident that this type of school library program is very possible.?-Emergency Librarian

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ROCHELLE B. SENATOR is the recipient of the International Reading Association's Middle School Special Interest Group Literacy Award for 1994. She retired in 1994 after 25 years as a library media specialist. During the last 11 years she developed and coordinated the reading comprehension program for the newly created sixth grade and brought resource-based learning to the middle school in New Canaan, Connecticut. She has presented workshops at the National Council of Teachers of English, at Connecticut Institutes for Teaching and Learning, and at the Connecticut Educational Media Association, among others. Currently she is consultant to several school systems and is the Connecticut coordinator for Count on Reading, a national literacy initiative of the American Library Association.

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