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Shakespeare
Bring on the Bard
Active Drama Approaches for Shakespeare’s Diverse Student Readers Kevin Long and Mary T. Christel As Shakespeare remains a staple of English language arts curricula, evolving standards challenge teachers to put students—not a text—at the center of a reading experience in order to support diverse readers and learners. Active drama approaches position students to engage with a rich text through low-risk speaking and improvisation activities as a part of any ELA classroom. The Folio Technique builds on those activities and introduces students to the clues Shakespeare built into his text that allow actors to efficiently understand their characters’ text, context, and subtext. Teachers can use excerpts from the First Folio of 1623 along with a mass market paperback or digital edition of a play to get closer to Shakespeare’s intentions and to explore the challenges the Bard’s modern editors face. This text offers suggestions for using parallel text, graphic, and abridged editions of Shakespeare’s works as well as activities using “cue scripts” and a variety of viewing experiences.
244 pp. | 2019 | Grades 9–12 | ISBN 9780814103821 $27.96 member/$34.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814103838
Reading Shakespeare Film First
Mary Ellen Dakin Foreword by Alan B. Teasley Mary Ellen Dakin asserts that we need to read Shakespeare in triplicate—as the stuff of transformative literature, theater, and film. She guides teachers and students with carefully researched and classroom-tested strategies for crossing over from Shakespeare’s early modern English to modern film and illustrated productions of his plays. Through a wealth of classroom vignettes, lessons, and handouts, we see how the “old” language of Shakespeare is constantly renewed through the “new” language of film.
179 pp. | 2012 | Grades 9–12 | ISBN 9780814139073 $27.96 member/$34.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814139080 Reading Shakespeare with Young Adults
Mary Ellen Dakin Although the works of William Shakespeare are universally taught in high schools, many students have a similar reaction when confronted with the difficult task of reading Shakespeare for the first time. In Reading Shakespeare with Young Adults, Mary Ellen Dakin seeks to help teachers better understand not just how to teach the Bard’s work, but also why. By celebrating the collaborative reading of Shakespeare’s plays, Dakin explores different methods for getting students engaged in—and excited about—the texts as they learn to construct meaning from Shakespeare’s sixteenth-century language and connect it to their twenty-first-century lives.
Filled with teacher-tested classroom activities, this book draws on often-taught plays, including Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
233 pp. | 2009 | Grades 9–12 | ISBN 9780814139042 $30.36 member/$37.99 nonmember
Teaching Romeo and Juliet
A Differentiated Approach Delia DeCourcy, Lyn Fairchild, and Robin Follet
308 pp. | 2007 | Grades 7–12 ISBN 9780814101124 $30.36 member/$37.99 nonmember
Teaching Julius Caesar
A Differentiated Approach Lyn Fairchild Hawks
219 pp. | 2010 | Grades 7–12 ISBN 9780814151082 $27.96 member/$34.99 nonmember
Available February 2021 Teach Living NEW Poets
Lindsay Illich and Melissa Alter Smith
Teach Living Poets opens up the flourishing world of contemporary poetry to secondary teachers, giving advice on discovering new poets and reading contemporary poetry, as well as sharing sample lessons, writing prompts, and ways to become an engaged member of a professional learning community. This approach offers rich opportunities for students to improve critical reading and writing, opportunities for self-expression and social-emotional learning, and perhaps the most desirable outcome, the opportunity to fall in love with language and discover (or renew) their love of reading. The many poems included in Teach Living Poets are representative of the diverse poets writing today.
200 pp. | 2021 | Grades 7–12 | ISBN 9780814152614 ebook ISBN: 9780814152621 Lightning
$27.96 member/$34.99 nonmember Paths
75 Poetry Writing Exercises Kyle Vaughn Lightning Paths features poetry writing exercises that, while they teach and utilize technique, also focus on and inspire the intuitive and imaginative qualities of poetry. Each exercise features a philosophical introduction that explains the nature of what the exercise aims for, the detailed exercise instructions, and a student example. The exercises themselves are divided into three sections: (1) exercises that focus on different types of imagery and different methods to generate fresh imagery; (2) exercises born out of unusual prompts and ideas aimed at engaging a writer’s experiences beyond poetry in the real world; and (3) exercises related to form or perhaps a reconsideration of what form might be or how it might function. Also included are introductions or essays related to imagery, inspiration, “leaping” poetry, and constrained writing.
121 pp. | 2018 | Grades 9–12 | ISBN 9780814128213 $22.36 member/$27.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814128237
See the entire CONTINUING THE JOURNEY series!
360 Degrees of Text
Using Poetry to Teach Close Reading and Powerful Writing Eileen Murphy Buckley Youth culture is rich with poetry, from song lyrics that teens read, listen to, and write, to poetry they perform through slams and open mics. The rich, compact language of poetry both inside and outside the classroom plays a valuable role in bridging the divide between youth culture and academic culture. Whether we call it “critical literacy” or just “making meaning,” being able to read and analyze with precision and judgment empowers all students, not just in their academic courses but in everyday situations that require thoughtful evaluation and response. Through Eileen Murphy Buckley’s 360-degree approach to teaching critical literacy, students investigate texts through a full spectrum of learning modalities, harnessing the excitement of performance, imitation, creative writing, and argument/debate activities to become more powerful thinkers, readers, and writers. Theory and Research Into Practice (TRIP) series
193 pp. | 2011 | Grades 9–12 | ISBN 9780814160237 $27.96 member/$34.99 nonmember
Getting the Knack
20 Poetry Writing Exercises Stephen Dunning and William Stafford
A perennial bestseller and favorite of teachers nationwide, Getting the Knack offers 20 poetry writing exercises in an easy-to-use, winning style. Dunning and Stafford, both widely known poets and educators, offer this delightful manual of ideas for teaching everything from found poems to headline poems to letter poems, acrostic poems, and pantoums. Each exercise covers different types or phases of poetry writing—and is presented with wit, humor, and a nonacademic style that makes it a perfect guide for novice and experienced poets (and teachers!) of all ages.
203 pp. | 1992 | Grades 6–12 | ISBN 9780814118481 $27.96 member/$34.99 nonmember
Teaching Poetry in High School
Albert B. Somers
Albert Somers offers a vast compendium of resources in a highly accessible format. A comprehensive resource for teachers, the book contains more than 40 complete poems and presents practical ideas and myriad ways for teachers and students to discover the joys of poetry.
234 pp. | 1999 | Grades 9–12 | ISBN 9780814152898 $27.96 member/$34.99 nonmember
Wordplaygrounds
Reading, Writing, and Performing Poetry in the English Classroom
John S. O’Connor
—Brett Vogelsinger, English teacher, Holicong Middle School, Doylestown, PA
John S. O’Connor offers exciting approaches to teaching poetry in middle school and high school classrooms with more than 25 high-interest activities designed to sharpen students’ writing and self-understanding and heighten their awareness of the world around them. In the process, he demystifies poetry for teachers and students by using students’ own life experiences as the basis for all student writing. Wordplaygrounds shows how students can move beyond the traditional boundaries of English curricula, interpreting poetry through a variety of media, including music, art, and dance—without special talent and training in these areas.
155 pp. | 2004 | Grades 7–12 | ISBN 9780814158197 $23.96 member/$29.99 nonmember
For more NCTE poetry resources, visit http://www2.ncte.org/resources/poetry/
Making Middle School
Cultivating Critical Literacy and Interdisciplinary Learning in Maker Spaces Steve Fulton and Cynthia D. Urbanski
Making Middle School is the story of eighth-grade English teacher Steve Fulton and science teacher Tiffany Green’s explorations of the intersections between critical literacy and science through maker spaces alongside their students. Steve and Tiffany, with thinking partner Cindy Urbanski, use the idea of make to center student learning in their classrooms as well as to democratize learning, back-loading English and science standards while front-loading the current focus on STEAM. Making— following one’s own desire to create—is based on principles of connected learning, where students work in community to challenge themselves, to be creative, and to wonder about their world. Making represents a pathway directed by the learner and allowed to unfold organically, without a scripted route or destination. By looking up close at the real work of teachers and students, Fulton and Urbanski illustrate the rich and real applications of a make-based approach in today’s middle school classrooms.
128 pp. | 2020 | Grades 6–8 | ISBN 9780814130667 $22.36 member/$27.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814130674
Continuing the Journey 3
Becoming a Better Teacherof Language, Speaking, and Listening Ken Lindblom and Leila Christenbury In this third book in the Continuing the Journey series, aimed at veteran teachers yet accessible to highly capable early career teachers, Ken Lindblom and Leila Christenbury explore teaching English language, speaking, and listening. Drawing on contemporary and foundational research to infuse classrooms with substance and energy, the authors focus on authentic assignments with real-world value. As an added benefit, teachers and scholars from across the country add their voices and experiences in the ideal Teachers’ Lounge, providing important and diverse perspectives and advice. Topics in this volume include: ● Understanding and teaching language change and attention to culture ● Fostering audience-responsive communication ● Addressing today’s challenges for in-person and technology-enabled speaking ● Encouraging and assessing respectful talk and multimedia communication ● Managing heated conversations ● Grasping why deep listening may be a lost art, and how we can recover it Packed with classroom-ready approaches, provocative ideas, encouraging insights, as well as the authors’ anecdotes and asides, this book will entertain, educate, and inspire teachers who take seriously the importance of language, speaking, and listening in today’s dynamic world.
181 pp. | 2019 | Grades 9–12 | ISBN 9780814108642 $27.96 member/$34.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814108659 Discussion Pathways to Literacy Learning
Thomas M. McCann, Elizabeth A. Kahn, and Carolyn C. Walter
This book examines the function of classroom discussion as an essential element in inquiry and literacy learning, providing examples of classroom discussion activities that have been part of an ongoing partnership between university professors and high school English teachers. The book draws on their research into the effect of discussion on literacy learning and offers examples of activities and guidelines for activities that teachers can use in their own practice. Through real classroom discussions, the authors show how participation in discussions can be pleasurable and meaningful experiences for adolescents, especially when they can choose the focus for their shared inquiry.
156 pp. | 2018 | Grades 9–College ISBN 9780814112113 $23.96 member/$29.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814112120
Linguistic Justice
Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy April Baker-Bell Bringing together theory, research, and practice to dismantle anti-Black linguistic racism and white linguistic supremacy, this book provides ethnographic snapshots of how Black students navigate and negotiate their linguistic and racial identities across multiple contexts. To move toward Black linguistic liberation, Baker-Bell introduces a new way forward through Antiracist Black Language Pedagogy, a pedagogical approach that intentionally and unapologetically centers the linguistic, cultural, racial, intellectual, and self-confidence needs of Black students. This volume captures what Antiracist Black Language Pedagogy looks like in classrooms while simultaneously illustrating how theory, research, and practice can operate in tandem in pursuit of linguistic and racial justice. NCTE-Routledge Research Series
128 pp. | 2020 | Grades K–12 | ISBN 9781138551022 $44.95 member/nonmember
World English
Pedagogy, Policy, Performance Vershawn Ashanti Young and Aja Y. Martinez, editors The original essays in this collection offer various perspectives on why codemeshing—blending minoritized dialects and world Englishes with Standard English—is a better pedagogical alternative than code-switching in the teaching of reading, writing, listening, speaking, and visually representing to diverse learners. Contributors argue that code-meshing leads to lucid, often dynamic prose by people whose first language is something other than English, as well as by native English speakers who speak and write with “accents” and those whose home language or neighborhood dialects are deemed “nonstandard.”
298 pp. | 2011 | College | ISBN 9780814107003 $30.36 member/$37.99 nonmember Code-Switching
Code-Meshing as
Teaching Standard English in Urban Classrooms Rebecca S. Wheeler and Rachel Swords Foreword by John R. Rickford Code-Switching focuses on building on the linguistic knowledge that children bring to school and advocates the use of “code-switching” to enable students to add another linguistic code—Standard English—to their linguistic toolbox. Rather than drill the idea of “Standard English” into students by labeling their home language as “wrong,” the authors offer strategies for teaching students to recognize the grammatical differences between home speech and school speech so that they are then able to choose the language style most appropriate to the time, place, audience, and communicative purpose. Theory and Research Into Practice (TRIP) series
197 pp. | 2006 | Grades K–8 | ISBN 9780814107027 $27.96 member/$34.99 nonmember
A Teacher’s Introduction to African American English
What a Writing Teacher Should Know Teresa M. Redd and Karen Schuster Webb
Redd and Webb explain what African American English (AAE) is and the role it may play in students’ mastery of Standard Written English. Designed for writing teachers, this is a concise, coherent, and current source that summarizes the major schools of thought about AAE—without polemics or unnecessary jargon—so that readers can draw their own conclusions about AAE and its influence on teaching and learning. Citing leading scholars in the field, the authors explain how AAE differs from other varieties of English, how it developed, how it might influence students’ ability to write Standard English, and how AAE speakers can learn to write Standard English more effectively.
