This volume offers a collection of media literacy lessons for the secondary English classroom, including a CD of student handouts, teacher resources, and sample media files.
Lesson Plans for Creating Media-Rich Classrooms
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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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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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Alphabet Organizer
K - 12
Student Interactive
| Organizing & Summarizing
Students use this online tool to create an alphabet chart or pages for an alphabet book.
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Being and Becoming: Multilingual Writers' Practices
K - 8
Professional Library
| Journal
This study examines the writing practices taken on and negotiated by multilingual class members within two multiage elementary classrooms.
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ABC Match
K - 2
Student Interactive
| Learning About Language
ABC Match is a game that has students practice letter-recognition fluency while honing their memories. Students match initial letters with pictures, playing either with a timer or without.
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Captioning the Civil Rights Movement: Reading the Images, Writing the Words
2 - 8
Lesson Plan
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Teachers guide students to carefully view images from the Civil Rights Movement and write captions that accurately describe the images and/or their probable purposes.
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Crossword Puzzles
K - 12
Student Interactive
| Organizing & Summarizing
This tool allows students to complete crossword puzzles on a variety of grade-appropriate topics, and also create and print their own crossword puzzles.
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Learning about Clouds with Haikus
4 - 6
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Using a mobile app or Interactive activity, students write haikus describing various types of clouds that they have studied.
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Developing Evidence-Based Arguments from Texts
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6 - 12
Strategy Guide
This strategy guide clarifies the difference between persuasion and argumentation, stressing the connection between close reading of text to gather evidence and formation of a strong argumentative claim about text.
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Power of Picture Books, The: Using Content Area Literature in Middle School
5 - 9
Professional Library
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Featuring descriptions and activities for fifty exceptional titles, Mary Jo Fresch and Peggy Harkins offer a wealth of ideas for harnessing the power of picture books to improve reading and writing in the content areas.
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Summarizing with Haikus
6 - 12
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Using the Haiku Poem App or the Haiku Poem Interactive, students summarize papers they have written using the traditional format of a haiku.
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Is Superman Really All That Super? Critically Exploring Superheroes
3 - 5
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What makes a superhero super? By comparing popular culture superheroes with heroic characters in children's literature, students learn to think critically about character traits, and consider how cultural perspectives influence the kinds of heroes we choose.
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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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Using Mobile Devices to Illustrate Literary Devices
6 - 8
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Using mobile devices, students capture images to represent literary devices. Students then reflect on why their images depict the literary devices.
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Word Mover
3 - 12
Student Interactive
| Writing Poetry
Word Mover allows children and teens to create "found poetry" by choosing from word banks and existing famous works; additionally, users can add new words to create a piece of poetry by moving/manipulating the text.
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Creating Family Timelines
3 - 5
Children can interview family members and make an illustrated timeline of the most important family events and memories.
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Picture This: Using Instagram to Report
4 - 8
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| Standard Lesson
After taking a field trip that students document using mobile app Instagram, students become new reporters as they use the interactive Printing Press to tell about their experiences.
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Trading Information about Minerals Through Trading Cards
6 - 8
Lesson Plan
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Using the free Trading Cards Mobile App, students create trading cards to share properties of various minerals with their classmates and connect the use of minerals to their own lives.
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The Magnetism of Language: Parts of Speech, Poetry, and Word Play
6 - 8
Lesson Plan
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What wonderful ways words work! The parts of speech are the highlight of this lesson in which students identify parts of speech in a nonsensical poem and then create their own wild and wacky rhymes.