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ABOUT THE SPECIAL ISSUES SERIES
Teachers and students across the country are grappling with several important issues. Almost daily, we hear from educators who are looking for practical and engaging approaches to racial literacy, critical media literacy, and trauma-informed teaching. NCTE is responding to these needs with our new Special Issues series designed to directly address these pressing topics in K–12 and college classrooms today. Edited by expert practitioners in the field, the first volumes offer a carefully curated collection of articles from across all of NCTE’s journals in one easy-to-reference book. Each article has been enhanced with teaching tips to help immediately implement these approaches in classrooms. Subsequent volumes will feature newly written contributions.
$23.96 member/$29.99 nonmember
Special Issues, Volume 1: Racial Literacy
Implications for Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Policy
Detra Price-Dennis, editor This first volume of Special Issues: Racial Literacy gathers some of the most compelling and practical recent articles across NCTE journals, addressing the importance of racial literacy and its implications for curriculum, pedagogy, and policy. Editor Detra Price-Dennis has curated this collection to show how teaching from a racial literacy perspective is in conversation with antiracist, culturally responsive, equityoriented frameworks that uplift curriculum design and instructional strategies. These articles can help educators (re)imagine the classroom as a space that supports the development of racial literacy skills and practices with their students.
171 pp. | 2021 | Grades K–College | ISBN 9780814144923 | ebook: ISBN 9780814144930
Special Issues, Volume 1: Critical Media Literacy
Bringing Lives to Texts
Tom Liam Lynch, editor Critical media literacy is not a single star burning brightly in the night sky. It is more like a constellation, a collection of stars that tell a story about how educators engage with young people through an array of communicative modes in the spirit of inquiry, society, and action. Edited by Tom Liam Lynch, this collection of essays drawn from NCTE’s many journals provides an excellent starting point for teachers who want to bring critical media literacy into their K–12 and college classrooms.
178 pp. | 2021 | Grades K–College | ISBN 9780814144893 | ebook: ISBN 9780814144916
Cultivating Healing-Centered ELA Classrooms
Sakeena Everett, editor This first volume of Special Issues: Trauma-Informed Teaching gathers some of the most compelling and practical recent articles across NCTE journals, addressing the importance of trauma-informed teaching and its recent developments in the field. Editor Sakeena Everett has curated this collection to show how to help K–college teachers integrate the most up-to-date approaches to trauma-informed teaching into their particular classroom environments. In this volume, you will find valuable insights, diverse perspectives, innovative and exciting pedagogies, as well as thought-provoking research methodologies that engage micro- and macro-level supports you need to get started today.
183 pp. | 2021 | Grades K–College | ISBN 9780814144947 | ebook: ISBN 9780814144954
Antibias and Antiracist Teaching QRG
The Time Is Always Now
Damián Baca, Kathleen Colantonio-Yurko, Lorena Germán, Richard Gorham, Patrick Harris, Keisha Rembert, and Holly Spinelli Drawing on ideas from critical race theory, the Learning for Justice Anchor Standards, and resources created by NCTE's Committee Against Racism and Bias in the Teaching of English, this quick-reference guide offers K–12 ELA educators practical approaches to teaching about antibias and antiracism. Features include two sample lessons, tips on ways to build community between students and educators, and suggested readings for students and for educators’ professional learning.
6 pp. | 2022 | Grades K–12 | ISBN 9780814186404 | $10.39 member/$12.99 nonmember
Black Boys, Male Teachers, and Early Childhood Classroom Practices
Nathaniel Bryan Critical and necessary, this book provides a window into the education and lives of Black boys in early childhood settings. Drawing on Black Critical Theory and Black Male Studies, and applying portraiture methodology, Bryan introduces BlackBoyCrit Pedagogy to explore experiences of Black boys and their male teachers in ways that affirm their humanity and acknowledge the consequences of existing in a white supremacist system. NCTE-Routledge Research Series
184 pp. | 2021 | Grades PreK–3 | ISBN 9780367254032 $36.71 member/$48.95 nonmember
Critical Race English Education
New Visions, New Possibilities
Lamar L. Johnson Foreword by Gloria Boutte Afterword by David Stovall Johnson’s visionary and much-needed book is a call for the transformation of English education to embrace rather than reject Blackness. Employing an original framework, Critical Race English Education, Johnson reveals how English education and ELA classrooms are dominated by eurocentric language and literacy practices, and provides a justice-oriented framework that combats anti-Black racism. Critical Race English Education is a movement for Black lives. NCTERoutledge Research Series
162 pp. | 2022 | Grades K–College | ISBN 9780367276423 $36.71 member/$48.95 nonmember
Transformational Sanctuaries in the Middle Level ELA Classroom
Creating Truth Spaces for Black Girls
Dywanna E. Smith Drawing from an arts-based research and humanizing methodologies, Smith documents transformative and liberatory spaces in ELA middle level classrooms, where students address and counteract discrimination, colorism, sizism, and body shaming. Grounded in an original qualitative study of adolescent Black girls, this book examines how such “truth spaces” serve as a medium for adolescents to self-examine their intersectional identities and give voice to their resilience in the face of marginalization. Incorporating original narratives, including the author’s self-actualizing verse novel and the voices of Black female students, Smith shines a light on new culturally sustaining pedagogies and offers much-needed implications for practice. NCTE-Routledge Research Series
190 pp. | 2022 | Grades 6–9 | ISBN 9780367355449 $36.71 member/$48.95 nonmember
Where Is the Justice?
Engaged Pedagogies in Schools and Communities
Valerie Kinloch, Emily A. Nemeth, Tamara T. Butler, and Grace D. Player This inspirational book is about engaged pedagogies, an approach to teaching and learning that centers dialogue, listening, equity, and connection among stakeholders who understand the human and ecological cost of inequality. Book Features:
● Provides a sound approach to deeply taking up the work of justice and engaged pedagogies. ● Presents linguistic, cultural, theoretical, and practical ideas that can be used and implemented immediately. ● Includes reflective questions, found poetry, lesson ideas, storytelling as narrative, and examples of engaged pedagogies. ● Shares stories from a districtwide initiative that embedded engaged pedagogies within classrooms, counseling offices, and libraries. ● Showcases original artwork and images in full color by Grace D.
Player, one of the coauthors. Copublished by Teachers College Press and NCTE.
192 pp. | 2021 | Grades K–College ISBN 9780807765999 $29.56 member/$36.95 nonmember
What Works in Grammar Instruction
Deborah Dean
In this friendly and practical book, veteran teacher educator Deborah Dean provides vignettes of classroom conversations to show what teaching grammar in context can look like in action; supplements the vignettes with descriptions of classroom practices to help teachers try out the ideas with their own students; and addresses issues such as helping English language learners and native speakers navigate formal, academic English, especially in the context of testing.
177 pp. | 2022 | Grades 9–12 | ISBN 9780814156834 $27.96 member/$34.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814156841
Materiality and Writing Studies
Aligning Labor, Scholarship, and Teaching
Holly Hassel and Cassandra Phillips This expansive look at the discipline of writing studies argues for the centering of the field’s research and service on first-year writing, particularly the new majority of college students and those who teach them. Drawing from a study of 78, two-year college student writers and an analysis of nearly two decades of issues of the major journals in the field of writing studies, Hassel and Phillips sketch out a reimagined vision for writing studies that roots the scholarship, research, and service in the discipline squarely within the changing material realities of contemporary college writing instruction. CCCC Studies in Writing & Rhetoric (SWR) Series
258 pp. | 2022 | College | ISBN 9780814130841 $30.36 member/$37.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814130858
On the Case in the English Language Arts Classroom
Situations for the Teaching of English
Thomas M. McCann, Elizabeth A. Kahn, Sarah Hochstetler, and Dianne Chambers Foreword by Peter Smagorinsky Being a high school English teacher is both rewarding and difficult. Although teacher education programs try to be thorough, they can’t prepare preservice teachers for every situation that might arise. For instance: ● How can an ELA teacher work with learners who have suffered significant trauma? ● How can a well-prepared literature instructor teach high school students the basics of reading? ● Should a teacher shy away from classroom conversations because they can become “too political”? ● How does a teacher contend with a crushing workload? Four veteran teacher educators offer twenty case narratives as well as a format for discussion, professional resources that can inform decisions, and a guide to constructing new case narratives that can expand the possibilities for developing powerful problem-solving strategies.
150 pp. | 2022 | Grades 9–12 | ISBN 9780814134214 $23.96 member/$29.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814134238
English Studies Reimagined
A New Context for Linguistics, Rhetoric and Composition, Creative Writing, Literature, Cultural Studies, and English Education
Bruce McComiskey, editor As much of English studies remains entrenched in nationalist discourses, McComiskey and the contributors to this volume argue that English studies must shift from a national to a global orientation in order to remain relevant. This sequel to McComiskey’s 2006 edited collection English Studies: An Introduction to the Discipline(s) features chapters by Jacquelyn Rahman (linguistics), Victor Villanueva (rhetoric and composition), Sarah Sandman (creative writing), Richard C. Taylor (literature and literary criticism), Jeffrey J. Williams (critical theory and cultural studies), and Tonya B. Perry (English education).
210 pp. | 2022 | College | ISBN 9780814115411 $27.96 member/$34.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814115435
A Teacher's Guide
Robert Bryant Crisp Struggling to help students engage with print texts? Looking for ways to help them learn to analyze texts deeply in a hands-on, differentiated, and real-world environment? Using Film to Unlock Textual Literacy explores strategies for using film study and filmmaking to help students engage in entirely new ways with both print and digital texts. From basic team building, storyboarding, and filmingwith-your-phone-camera activities to deeper dives into adapting texts, making directorial choices, and guiding audience response through texts, Crisp proves that you can teach film study even without specialized training. Texts incorporated into lessons include “Casey at the Bat,” 42, E. T., “Everyday Use,” Othello, Edward Scissorhands, “The Cremation of Sam McGee,” Unbroken, and more. Resources include a list of film vocabulary, observation charts and rubrics, storyboard templates, and sample film technique assessments.
241 pp. | 2021 | Grades 9–12 | ISBN 9780814154465 $30.36 member/$37.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814154472
Teaching Macbeth
A Differentiated Approach
Available April 2022
Lyn Fairchild Hawks Macbeth, a story of ambition, terror, and conscience, speaks to our students and our era. Through differentiated instruction, Lyn Fairchild Hawks offers ways to engage all students with different readiness levels and interests. With lessons highlighting key scenes, film analysis activities, close reading assignments, and preassessments and summative assessments, this guide offers a wide range of exciting options to challenge your learners. With independent reading matches linked by theme, activities and projects mirroring professional roles, and relevance hooks to meet students’ interests, Macbeth can come alive for all students. Included are DIY tips for lesson design and a companion website with over 40 ready-to-use handouts.
280 pp. | 2022 | Grades 7–12 | ISBN 9780814151812 $30.36 member/$37.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814151228
Theater, Drama, and Reading
Transforming the Rehearsal Process into a Reading Process
Judith Freeman Garey Foreword by Sheridan Blau Drawing on both the production aspects of theater and the generative learning elements of drama, Garey shows readers how to transform text from print to interaction, establishing a simple framework for how to read as an actor who builds characters’ lives, a set designer who constructs context, and a director who generates action. This significant and practical new resource for all language arts teachers provides step-by-step examples from classroom practice, and clearly demonstrates how the strategies achieve the Common Core State Standards. Additionally, the book defines a unique approach to teaching dramatic literature, features a short overview of additional popular classroom drama strategies to engage students with written text, and integrates practical suggestions to convert all of these strategies to online instruction.
