This guide shares the steps to take to get more students talking by dividing the group into speaking and non-speaking circles.

The first volume in the NCTE High School Literature Series, this small, practical book features primary source materials including many of Giovanni's poems reprinted in full, easily adaptable lessons and activities, and a resource section for students and teachers wishing to study Giovanni further.

Intended for middle and high school teachers, Go Public! offers specific writing ideas and classroom activities to help students develop the confidence and ability to publish in a wide market.

This book provides practical, research-based strategies that can help secondary-level English language learners meet the challenges of both language and content learning.

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.

After reading The Tempest or any other play by William Shakespeare, students work in small groups to plan, compose, and perform a choral reading based on a character or theme.

Students will be singing the blues in this lesson in which they identify themes from "The Gift of the Magi" and write and present blues poetry based on those themes.

Interaction and adventure draws high school and elementary school students together as they analyze stories about the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Y'all set down a spell and learn ‘bout dialects!" In other words, your students will use The Color Purple to explore dialect and how it reveals information about the characters.

Students read a work of realistic fiction about bullying and gain understanding through writing, Readers Theatre, and discussion.

Introduce students to the idea that movies and TV have their own language and grammar, which gives them special ways of telling their stories.

Students watch a sample of artistic video clips online and respond through creative writing while using the vocabulary words they are currently studying.

Students compile a playlist of 10 songs representing a literary character and explain their choices based on the book's dialogue, plot, conflict, and resolution.

Movie music and magic set the scene for this lesson in which students analyze a scene from Good Morning, Vietnam and then create a scene of their own.