Professional Reading for Middle Level Educators

Reviewed are books that present ways to use the many and varied literacies of reading, writing, music, art, and digital technologies to engage our students in powerful learning: Adolescents and Digital Literacies: Learning Alongside Our Students by Sara Kajder; The Socially Networked Classroom: Teaching in the New Media Age by William Kist; Fresh Takes on Teaching Literary Elements: How to Teach What Really Matters about Character, Setting, Point of View, and Theme by Michael W. Smith and Jeffrey D. Wilhelm; The Magic of Middle School Musicals by Victor Bobetsky; Teaching Middle School Writers: What Every English Teacher Needs to Know by Laura Robb.