Student motivation and engagement are crucial conditions for adolescents' literacy development. We have focused on developing classroom materials that engage adolescents in tasks that promote academic literacy within the context of content area instruction. Word Generation provides engaging paragraphs about current topics in a journalistic style that connects to real world issues and to students' lives.
We selected the weekly topics for their relevance to middle school students' interests as well as to issues of vital importance to the public at large. These brief paragraphs are intended to spark rich, substantive conversation among students and their teachers. |
