This book offers both an eloquent philosophy of composition instruction and a useful set of classroom-tested teaching ideas distilled from the author's 28 years of teaching writing.
Writing at the Threshold: Featuring 56 Ways to Prepare High School and College Students to Think and Write at the College Level
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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.