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Literature
Workshopping the Canon
Mary E. Styslinger
—Shawna Easton, 8th-Grade ELAR teacher, Rogers Middle School, Prosper, TX
Styslinger demonstrates how to partner classic texts with a variety of high-interest genres within a reading and writing workshop structure, aligning the teaching of literature with what we have come to recognize as best practices in the teaching of literacy. Guided by a multitude of teacher voices, student examples, and useful ideas, workshopping teachers explore a unit focus and its essential questions through a variety of reading workshop structures, including read-alouds, independent reading, shared reading, close reading, response engagements, Socratic circles, book clubs, and mini-lessons (e.g., how-to, reading, literary, craft, vocabulary, and critical), as well as writing workshop structures comprising mentor texts, writing plans, mini-lessons, independent writing, conferences, writing circles, and publishing.
197 pp. | 2017 | Grades 7–12 | ISBN 9780814158470 $27.96 member/$34.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814158494
Engaging American Novels
Lessons from the Classroom Joseph O. Milner and Carol A. Pope, editors Urging students to read novels can be a truly demanding task. But the ability to help students find novels engaging is a mark of an exceptional teacher. This collection focuses on ten frequently taught American novels, both classic and contemporary, that can help promote such engagement:
Of Mice and Men
Out of the Dust
The Great Gatsby
Bless Me, Ultima
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Their Eyes Were Watching God
To Kill a Mockingbird The Bluest Eye The Outsiders The Chocolate War
390 pp. | 2011 | Grades 9–12 | ISBN 9780814113585 $31.96 member/$39.99 nonmember Stories Matter
The Complexity of Cultural Authenticity in Children’s Literature Dana L. Fox and Kathy G. Short, editors This collection highlights important historical events, current debates, and new questions and critiques in the controversial issue of cultural authenticity in children’s literature. Contributors © Susan Guevara 2000 include Rudine Sims Bishop, Jacqueline Woodson, Susan Guevara, Kathryn Lasky, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Joel Taxel, and Mingshui Cai. Essays address the social responsibility of authors, the role of imagination and experience in writing for young people, cultural sensitivity and values, authenticity of content and images, authorial freedom, and the role of literature in an education that is multicultural.
340 pp. | 2003 | Grades K–8 | ISBN 9780814147443 $30.36 member/$37.99 nonmember
A Symphony of Possibilities
A Handbook for Arts Integration in Secondary English Language Arts Katherine J. Macro and Michelle Zoss, editors A Symphony of Possibilities explores arts-based pedagogies for secondary teachers of English language arts. Drama, music, poetry, public art, and visual art are explored in detail by experts in their fields sharing proven methods of instruction with secondary students and teachers. Each chapter looks at effective teaching methods that incorporate the arts into secondary English classrooms. Through the arts we see teachers and researchers who explore and expand upon comprehension, memory, issues of identity, and culturally relevant pedagogies. The arts challenge students to approach course material in personal and interactive ways. This book provides a resource for teachers who are looking for creative approaches to their teaching that will allow them to move their students into innovative and thoughtful learning spaces.
240 pp. | 2019 | Grades 7–12 | ISBN 9780814149713 $30.36 member/$37.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814149720
have to offer books they
Susan L. Groenke and Lisa Scherff Foreword by Alan Sitomer
a few key questions: Authors Susan L. Groenke and Lisa Scherff offer suggestions for incorporating YA lit into the high school curriculum by focusing on
Which works of YA literature work better for wholeclass instruction and which are more suitable for independent reading and/or small-group activities?
What can teachers do with YA lit in whole-class instruction?
How can teachers use YA novels to address the needs of diverse readers in mixed-ability classrooms? Each chapter opens with an introduction to and description of a different popular genre or award category of YA lit—science fiction, realistic teen fiction, graphic novels, Pura Belpré Award winners, nonfiction texts, poetry, historical YA fiction—and then offers suggestions within that genre for whole-class instruction juxtaposed with a young adult novel more suited for independent reading or small-group activities.
177 pp. | 2010 | Grades 9–12 | ISBN 9780814133705 Teaching Reading with YA Literature
Complex Texts, Complex Lives Jennifer Buehler
To meet the needs of all students as readers, we
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can—and want to—read. Buehler explores the three core elements of a young adult pedagogy with proven success in practice: (1) a classroom that cultivates a reading community; (2) a teacher who serves as book matchmaker and guide; and (3) tasks that foster complexity, agency, and autonomy in teen readers. With a supporting explication of NCTE’s policy research brief Reading Instruction for All Students and lively vignettes of teachers and students reading with passion and purpose, 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.
173 pp. | 2016 | Grades 7–12 | ISBN 9780814157268 $23.96 member/$29.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814157275
Say Yes to Pears
Food Literacy in and beyond the English Classroom Joseph Franzen and Brent Peters
—Alice Waters, owner of Chez Panisse Restaurant and founder of the Edible Schoolyard Project
In 2010 Fern Creek High School in Louisville, Kentucky, was labeled failing by the state and had half of its teachers removed. Brent Peters, a former chef and current English teacher, and Joe Franzen, an eccentric urban homesteader and history teacher, were hired to help ignite students’ passion for learning. Say Yes to Pears tells the story of food literacy at Fern Creek High School and about how Food Lit works in the English classroom, beyond the English classroom, and beyond the school day. The book serves as a pedagogical guide on how to construct a place- and community-based program focused on creative and critical thought and action.
179 pp. | 2019 | Grades 9–12 | ISBN 9780814142417 $27.96 member/$34.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814142424
Developing Teaching Climate
building this into their own classrooms. Visit the website for
Contemporary Literacies through Sports
A Guide for the English Classroom Alan Brown and Luke Rodesiler, editors With seven interrelated sections—facilitating literature study, providing alternatives to traditional novels, teaching writing, engaging students in inquiry and research, fostering media and digital literacies, promoting social justice, and developing out-of-school literacies—this collection of lessons and commentaries from established teachers, teacher educators, scholars, and authors, as well as the companion website, provide numerous resources that support teachers in developing students’ contemporary literacies through sports. Each section includes (1) four lesson plans written by practicing English teachers and teacher educators that focus on a specific topic and/or method of instruction; (2) a brief introduction from a leading scholar in the field of English education; and (3) a closing “author connection” in which contemporary authors of sports-related young adult literature offer reflections on and connections to the ongoing conversations.
253 pp. | 2016 | Grades 6–12 | ISBN 9780814110959 $30.36 member/$37.99 nonmember Change to Adolescents
Reading, Writing, and Making a Difference Richard Beach, Jeff Share, and Allen Webb
This book is THE essential resource for middle and high school English language arts teachers to help their students understand and address the urgent issues and challenges facing life on Earth today. Classroom activities written and used by teachers show students posing questions, engaging in argumentative reading and writing and critical analysis, interpreting portrayals of climate change in literature and media, and adopting advocacy stances to promote change. The book illustrates climate change fitting into existing courses using already available materials and gives teachers tools and teaching ideas to support
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this book (http://climatechangeela.pbworks.com) for additional information and links. All royalties from the sale of this book are donated to Alliance for Climate Education. Routledge and NCTE
