Using Literature in the Middle School Curriculum

by Carol Otis Hurst and Rebecca Otis

In this valuable resource, Hurst and Otis bring together the methods and philosophy for the extensive use of trade books in the middle school curriculum. Novels, picture books, and non-fiction materials are summarized and extended within the context of themes, literary study, and focus books for discussion and activities in the classroom and library. Eighteen fully developed themes enable educators to bring literature into other areas of the curriculum...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0938865730
• ISBN13: 9780938865735
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Linworth Publishing
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 11.0"