This strategy guide explains how you can employ peer review in your classroom, guiding students as they offer each other constructive feedback to improve their writing and communication skills.
Peer Review
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Promoting Student Self-Assessment
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6 - 12
Strategy Guide
In this Strategy Guide, you'll learn about a number of specific methods that will promote self-assessment and contribute to a richer understanding of student learning.
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Evidence-based Discussions
Grades
6 - 12
Strategy Guide Series
These Strategy Guides offer varied ways to support students as they develop the skills and habits necessary to participate in evidence-based conversations.
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Teaching Reading with YA Literature: Complex Texts, Complex Lives
6 - 12
Professional Library
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This book is designed to help teachers develop their own version of YA pedagogy and a vision for teaching YA lit in the middle and secondary classroom.
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Zora Neale Hurston in the Classroom: "With a Harp and a Sword in My Hands"
8 - 12
Professional Library
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The book offers a practical approach to Hurston using a range of student-centered activities for teaching Hurston's nonfiction, short stories, and the print and film versions of Their Eyes Were Watching God.
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Sherman Alexie in the Classroom: "This is not a silent movie. Our voices will save our lives."
8 - 12
Professional Library
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Provides high school teachers with teaching strategies, classroom activities, and student samples for teaching the works of Sherman Alexie.
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Sandra Cisneros in the Classroom: "Do not forget to reach"
8 - 12
Professional Library
The third volume in the NCTE High School Literature Series explores the joys of reading and teaching the stories and poems of noted Mexican American author Sandra Cisneros.
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Langston Hughes in the Classroom: "Do Nothin' till You Hear from Me"
8 - 12
Professional Library
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Carmaletta M. Williams provides high school teachers with background on Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance as well as help in teaching Hughes's poetry, short stories, novels, and autobiography.
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Judith Ortiz Cofer in the Classroom: A Woman in Front of the Sun
8 - 12
Professional Library
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Carol Jago offers ways to teach the works of Judith Ortiz Cofer in the high school English classroom.
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Amy Tan in the Classroom: "The art of invisible strength"
8 - 12
Professional Library
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Offers high school teachers an activity-based approach to teaching the works of Amy Tan, especially The Joy Luck Club and The Opposite of Fate.
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Alice Walker in the Classroom: "Living by the Word"
8 - 12
Professional Library
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Carol Jago offers readers a handy guide for bringing this celebrated author's work into the classroom, including biographical information, ideas for literature circles using Walker's short stories, sample writing lessons using Walker's poems, suggestions for teaching The Color Purple, and a wealth of resources for further investigation of Alice Walker and her work.
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Conducting Inner-Outer Circle Discussions
Grades
6 - 12
Strategy Guide
This guide shares the steps to take to get more students talking by dividing the group into speaking and non-speaking circles.
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Using Partner Talk to Strengthen Student Collaboration and Understanding
Grades
K - 8
Strategy Guide
In this strategy guide, you'll learn about Partner Talk—a way to provide students with another learning opportunity to make learning their own through collaboration and discussion.
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Using Paired Reading to Increase Fluency and Peer Cooperation
Grades
K - 6
Strategy Guide
In this strategy, students read aloud to each other, pairing more fluent readers with less fluent readers. This strategy can also be used to pair older students with younger students to create "reading buddies."
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Roots and Branches: A Resource of Native American Literature
7 - 12
Professional Library
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This valuable resource book offers teachers an opportunity to learn and to teach about Native American literatures in context. Susag examines the historical and literary contexts that frame the literary work of Native peoples.
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Nikki Giovanni in the Classroom: "The same ol' danger but a brand new pleasure"
9 - 12
Professional Library
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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.
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Go Public!: Encouraging Student Writers to Publish
6 - 12
Professional Library
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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.
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Language Learners in the English Classroom
7 - 12
Professional Library
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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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Engaging Grammar: Practical Advice for Real Classrooms
7 - 12
Professional Library
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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.