Bridging the Gap: Integrating Curriculum in Upper Elementary and Middle Schools

This book details a unique collaboration between and elementary teacher and a middle school teacher as they introduce broad themes in their classrooms.

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Two teachers (one in elementary school, the other in middle school) discuss their own processes of experimentation in the classroom, with ideas for projects and approaches as well as suggestions for developing a theme and integrating the prescribed curriculum. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

MARIE DIONISIO is a language arts teacher at Louis M. Klein Middle School in Harrison, New York. She has received two writing awards from English Journal and a Teacher of Excellence award from the New York State English Council. She teaches graduate courses at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, and serves on the NCTE Commission on Curriculum.

CORA LEE FIVE is a fifth-grade teacher at Edgewood School in Scarsdale, New York. She is the author of Special Voices (Heinemann, 1992), which describes her case studies of students with special needs in a regular classroom. In 1990, she received the Professional Best leadership award from Learning Magazine . She is a member of the NCTE Elementary Section Steering Committee and serves on the Middle Childhood/English Language Arts Standards Committee for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.