Professional Reading for Middle Level Educators: Literacy Education—Past and Future

As literacy is redefined to include a range of media and technology, it is important to incorporate methods that embrace them, as our students certainly do. Reviewed are: Reading the Past, Writing the Future (Erika Lindemann), Bring It to Class: Unpacking Pop Culture in Literacy Learning (Margaret Hagood, Donna Alvermann, and Alison Heron-Hruby), Building Reading Comprehension Habits in Grades 6–12 (Jeff Zwiers), Literacies, the Arts, and Multimodality (Peggy Albers and Jennifer Sanders). Additional book recommendations are also listed.