Literacy Learning in Networked Classrooms: Using the Internet With Middle-Level Students.

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Would you like to include the Internet in your literacy teaching with middle-grade students but want to know if online learning is as effective as print-based learning? Do you wonder whether students' time spent reading and writing online improves their learning or, instead, hinders literacy development?

Author Mary McNabb, with Bonnie B. Thurber, Balazs Dibuz, Pamela A. McDermott, and Carol Ann Lee, seeks to answer those questions and explain why teachers need to provide students with online literacy opportunities. Although middle-grade students may sometimes appear more technologically savvy than their teachers, they still need your guidance in understanding the complex systems involved in interpreting, creating, and working with information online.

Through this book, you will discover the research base for including technology in your classroom, gain an understanding of the dynamics of digital reading and writing, and learn how to design online literacy opportunities. Three curriculum units illustrate the book's framework and target key topics in online literacy: fostering student ownership, teaching students to conduct information research, and harnessing the writing process through an online writers' workshop.

Middle-level teachers, librarians, and media specialists can use the reproducible rubric, timeline of classroom events, and suggested Web resources in each curriculum unit to implement the lessons in their own classrooms.

Literacy Learning in Networked Classrooms will be available in December. See the December/January issue of Reading Today for pricing details. Order publication number 567-448.