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Part of the reason my students have such a hard time reading is because they bring little prior knowledge and background to the written page. They can decode the words, but the words remain meaningless without a foundation of knowledge.To help build my students’ prior knowledge, I assign them an "Article of the Week" every Monday morning. By the end of the school year I want them to have read 35 to 40 articles about what is going on in the world. It is not enough to simply teach my students to recognize theme in a given novel; if my students are to become literate, they must broaden their reading experiences into real-world text.
Below you will find the articles I assigned* this year to my 9th grade students.
"The Future of the Electric Car" The Week
Looking for previous year's Article of the Week assignments? Check out the
Article of the Week Archive.
*While I assigned these, many of the lessons were prepared by my colleagues in the Magnolia High School English Department, including Helen Chung, Amie Howell, Melissa Hunnicutt, Virginia Kim, Katrina Mundy, Esther Noh, Kalli Pappas, Sherri Rothwell, Lindsay Ruben, Margaret Tagler, Robin Turner, Sarah Valenzuela, Michelle Waxman, and Dana White.
