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.
Standards for the English Language Arts
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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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Writing at the Threshold: Featuring 56 Ways to Prepare High School and College Students to Think and Write at the College Level
11 - 12
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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.
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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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Code-Switching: Teaching Standard English in Urban Classrooms
K - 8
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Wheeler and Swords show K–6 teachers how to use code-switching and contrastive analysis to help students use prior knowledge to translate vernacular English into Standard English.
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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.
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Wondrous Words: Writers and Writing in the Elementary Classroom
K - 6
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Katie Wood Ray explains in practical terms the theoretical underpinnings of how elementary and middle school students learn to write from their reading.
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The Writing Workshop: Working through the Hard Parts (And They're All Hard Parts)
K - 8
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A practical, comprehensive, and illuminating guide for both new and experienced teachers that confronts the challenges of the writing workshop head-on.