This interactive tool allows students to create Venn diagrams that contain two or three overlapping circles, enabling them to organize their information logically.
Venn Diagram
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The Great Gatsby in the Classroom: Searching for the American Dream
9 - 12
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Veteran high school English teacher David Dowling demonstrates how teachers can help students connect The Great Gatsby to the value systems of the twenty-first century, offering active reading and thinking strategies designed to enhance higher-level thinking and personal responses to fiction.
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To Kill a Mockingbird in the Classroom: Walking in Someone Else's Shoes
9 - 12
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This book examines ways of engaging students as they study Harper Lee's novel. Included are collaborative learning, discussion, writing, and inquiry-based projects as well as activities related to the film version of To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Writing about Literature, 2nd ed., Revised and Updated
9 - 12
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This book is intended to help middle and secondary school English language arts teachers integrate literature study and composition instruction.
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Authentic Assessments for the English Classroom
6 - 12
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Joanna Dolgin, Kim Kelly, and Sarvenaz Zelkha offer real-world examples, sample student work, step-by-step instructions, and handouts to help teachers incorporate authentic forms of assessment into the middle and high school curriculum.
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Adolescent Literacy and the Teaching of Reading: Lessons for Teachers of Literature
9 - 12
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Deborah Appleman dismantles the traditional divide between secondary teachers of literature and teachers of reading and offers a variety of practical ways to teach reading within the context of literature classrooms.
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Reading Shakespeare with Young Adults
9 - 12
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Dakin explores different methods for getting students engaged--and excited--about Shakespeare's plays as they learn to construct meaning from the texts' sixteenth-century language and connect it to their twenty-first-century lives.
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What Works in Writing Instruction: Research and Practices
7 - 12
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Through teacher-friendly language and classroom examples, Deborah Dean takes a close look at effective, research-based practices for writing instruction.
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Reading for Learning: Using Discipline-Based Texts to Build Content Knowledge
5 - 10
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Heather Lattimer provides practical, classroom-tested approaches to helping students access and critically respond to content-based texts.
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What Is "College-Level" Writing? Volume 2: Assignments, Readings, and Student Writing Samples
9 - 12
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Edited by Patrick Sullivan, Howard Tinberg, and Sheridan Blau, this sequel to What Is "College-Level" Writing? (2006) highlights the practical aspects of teaching writing.
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Teaching YA Lit through Differentiated Instruction
9 - 12
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Authors Susan L. Groenke and Lisa Scherff offer suggestions for incorporating YA lit into the high school curriculum.
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Reading & Writing & Teens: A Parent's Guide to Adolescent Literacy
6 - 12
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Offering advice from a host of experts in adolescent literacy, this book helps answer real questions from parents across the country about how to best support their teens as readers and writers.
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Walking the Talk: Examining Privilege and Race in a Ninth-Grade Classroom
8 - 12
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The authors describe their struggles and eventual success with students in constructing a "counternarrative to colormuteness and colorblindness"—the self-imposed student segregation and silencing of voice.
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Technology That Powers Up Learning
5 - 8
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By designing lessons to activate prior knowledge and linking these activities to reading and writing, teachers found that students were more engaged, that they learned more material more quickly, and that they more willingly incorporated reading into their lives.
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Tim O'Brien in the Classroom: "This too is true: Stories can save us"
9 - 12
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As part of the NCTE High School Literature Series, Tim O'Brien in the Classroom focuses on opportunities for classroom discussion and writing assignments, including lessons, open-ended prompts, and student writing samples.
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Violent Red, Ogre Green, and Delicious White: Expanding Meaning Potential through Media
K - 8
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This article reports on the meaning potential of daily access to drawing/writing media for widening and deepening meaning construction.
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A Failure of the Imagination
8 - 12
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This article discusses the imaginative activities and assignments that teachers often assign that violate the text around which the lesson is focused and that mislead students about its meaning.
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Finding the Thread: Character, Setting, and Theme
5 - 9
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An annotated bibliography of books that exemplify the plot elements, character, setting, and theme. Includes guidelines on how to do a book talk.
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Adolescents and Digital Literacies: Learning Alongside Our Students
9 - 12
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This book isn't about technology. It's about the teaching practices that technology enables. This book addresses the ways in which teachers and students work together to navigate continuous change and what it means to read, write, view, listen, and communicate in the twenty-first century.
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Multigenre, Multiple Intelligences, and Transcendentalism
8 - 12
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Colleen A. Ruggieri offers a multigenre, mulltiple intelligences unit on transcendentalism complete with suggested texts and an assessment plan.