Dean synthesizes theory and research about genres and provides secondary-level teachers with practical classroom applications.

Traci Gardner offers practical tips, starting points, and a companion website to help secondary and college teachers design effective writing assignments.

The authors guide high school teachers in developing skills in promoting and facilitating authentic discussion in the English language arts classroom.

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

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.

Just what defines "college-level" writing? This collection seeks to engage this essential question with care, patience, and pragmatism.

This collection of lesson plans will help prepare high school and college students for college-level writing.

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.

Katie Wood Ray explains in practical terms the theoretical underpinnings of how elementary and middle school students learn to write from their reading.

A practical, comprehensive, and illuminating guide for both new and experienced teachers that confronts the challenges of the writing workshop head-on.

Students explore poetry about sports, looking closely at the use of onomatopoeia. After viewing a segment of a sporting event, students create their own onomatopoeic sports poems.