Dean synthesizes theory and research about genres and provides secondary-level teachers with practical classroom applications.
Genre Theory: Teaching, Writing, and Being
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Designing Writing Assignments
9 - 12
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Traci Gardner offers practical tips, starting points, and a companion website to help secondary and college teachers design effective writing assignments.
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Preventing Plagiarism: Tips and Techniques
9 - 12
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DeSena offers a practical guide on how high school and college teachers can structure assignments and guide students so that students don't plagiarize.
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Talking in Class: Using Discussion to Enhance Teaching and Learning
9 - 12
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The authors guide high school teachers in developing skills in promoting and facilitating authentic discussion in the English language arts classroom.
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Getting the Knack: 20 Poetry Writing Exercises
6 - 12
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Dunning and Stafford, both widely known poets and educators, offer this delightful manual of exercises for beginning poets.
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Lesson Plans for Creating Media-Rich Classrooms
7 - 12
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This volume offers a collection of media literacy lessons for the secondary English classroom, including a CD of student handouts, teacher resources, and sample media files.
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Standards for the English Language Arts
K - 12
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Standards for the English Language Arts presents a vision of literacy education that encompasses the use of print, oral, and visual language and addresses six interrelated English language arts: reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing, and visually representing.
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Language Learners in the English Classroom
7 - 12
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This book provides practical, research-based strategies that can help secondary-level English language learners meet the challenges of both language and content learning.
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Reading in the Reel World: Teaching Documentaries and Other Nonfiction Texts
7 - 12
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John Golden offers middle and high school teachers a practical guide for using documentary film in the classroom to improve students' reading, writing, and thinking skills.
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What Is "College-Level" Writing?
9 - 12
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Just what defines "college-level" writing? This collection seeks to engage this essential question with care, patience, and pragmatism.
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Building Literacy Connections with Graphic Novels: Page by Page, Panel by Panel
7 - 12
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This collection of essays by classroom teachers demonstrates how to pair graphic novels with classic literature (including both canonical and YA lit).
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Reading in the Dark: Using Film as a Tool in the English Classroom
9 - 12
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In this practical guide, John Golden makes direct links between film and literary study by addressing reading strategies (e.g., predicting, responding, questioning) and key aspects of textual analysis.
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Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing
8 - 12
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This collection of lesson plans will help prepare high school and college students for college-level writing.
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Engaging Grammar: Practical Advice for Real Classrooms
7 - 12
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Amy Benjamin challenges the idea of "skill and drill" grammar instruction, and Tom Oliva provides a teacher's journal chronicling how the concepts in this book can work in a real classroom.
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Grammar Alive!: A Guide for Teachers
K - 12
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NCTE's Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar provides this much-needed resource for teachers who wonder what to do about grammar—how to teach it, how to apply it, how to learn what they themselves were never taught.