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Continuing the Journey
Becoming a Better Teacher of Literature and Informational Texts
Leila Christenbury and Ken Lindblom
Aimed at accomplished veteran teachers, Continuing the Journey offers practical advice, encouragement, and cutting-edge ideas for today’s English classroom. Coauthors Christenbury and Lindblom, wellknown teachers, writers, and former editors of English Journal, are joined in this book by almost two dozen classroom teachers and researchers. Together they present real strategies for real classrooms and offer teachers ideas, insights, and support. Focused on literature and informational texts, this lively book (the first in a series) is a road map to professional renewal and to becoming a better teacher. Topics include: ● Changes in you, your classroom, and your school ● What it means to be a better teacher ● Teaching literary texts and literary nonfiction ● Incorporating the study of informational texts and of social media in your classroom
196 pp. | 2017 | Grades 9-12 | ISBN 9780814108543 $27.96 member/$34.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814108550
Continuing the Journey 2
Becoming a Better Teacher of Authentic Writing
Ken Lindblom and Leila Christenbury Ken Lindblom and Leila Christenbury return with the second volume in the Continuing the Journey series, this time focusing on authentic writing instruction for the high school classroom. The authors draw on what research has taught them about writing—concepts deeply rooted in personal identity and real-world experience—and why we must teach writing accurately, effectively, and fearlessly. As in the previous volume, the book includes visits to an ideal Teachers’ Lounge, featuring highly experienced colleagues and well-known authors in English teaching. Topics covered include responding to student writing, handling the paper load, and seeking real-world feedback.
180 pp. | 2018 | Grades 9–12 | ISBN 9780814108574 $27.96 member/$34.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814108598
Becoming a Better Teacher | Secondary
Becoming a better teacher is a continuous journey—ever learning and growing in our knowledge and skills. NCTE’s Continuing the Journey book series, from veteran teachers Leila Christenbury and Ken Lindblom, offers advanced approaches to teaching English language arts and bridges research to practice in professional learning.
Continuing the Journey 3
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.
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
On the Case in the English Language Arts Classroom
NEW
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
Letting Go
How to Give Your Students Control over Their Learning in the English Classroom
Meg Donhauser, Cathy Stutzman, and Heather Hersey This book explores an inquiry approach in which students differentiate their own learning with the space to choose texts, develop questions, and practice skills that are unique to their individual needs. Rooted in the Inquiry Learning Plan (ILP), a flexible tool that allows students to engineer their own goals and create an authentic final assessment, this practical approach provides a clear, customizable experience for teachers looking to shift ownership of learning to the student, whether wholly or in part. The authors—two classroom teachers and a school librarian—discuss strategies to scaffold the inquiry process while addressing the common pitfalls students encounter. Student examples of activities, reflections, and final products provide concrete models of how to use the strategies separately and how they relate.
196 pp. | 2018 | Grades 9–12 | ISBN 9780814128046 $27.96 member/$34.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814128060
Building the English Classroom
Foundations, Support, Success
Bruce M. Penniman
Bruce M. Penniman draws on his nearly four decades of classroom experiences to offer guidance and support for managing the myriad demands of teaching secondary English. From addressing the numerous subdisciplines within English to making individual accommodations, from dealing with being the primary locus of literacy instruction in the school to everyday organizational strategies, Penniman helps teachers find a way to impose order on what often seems like an overwhelming array of responsibilities.
253 pp. | 2009 | Grades 9–12 | ISBN 9780814103869 $30.36 member/$37.99 nonmember
English Studies Reimagined
A New Context for Linguistics, Rhetoric and Composition, Creative Writing, Literature, Cultural Studies, and English Education
NEW
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
English Studies
An Introduction to the Discipline(s)
Bruce McComiskey, editor Well-known scholars in the field explore the important qualities and functions of English studies’ constituent disciplines—Ellen Barton on linguistics and discourse analysis, Janice Lauer on rhetoric and composition, Katharine Haake on creative writing, Richard Taylor on literature and literary criticism, Amy Elias on critical theory and cultural studies, and Robert Yagelski on English education—and the productive differences and similarities among them that define English studies’ continuing importance. This popular course adoption text provides an invaluable overview of an increasingly fragmented field.
339 pp. | 2006 | College | ISBN 9780814115442 $30.36 member/$37.99 nonmember
Degree of Change
The MA in English Studies
Margaret M. Strain and Rebecca C. Potter, editors As the needs of those seeking an MA in English studies have evolved, so too have the degree’s mission and identity. Looking primarily at stand-alone master’s programs, this volume gathers perspectives from faculty, program directors, and students from across the country to examine the design, delivery, and value of a master’s degree in English, challenging the characterization that MA programs in English serve primarily as stepping-stones to the PhD. Rather, contributors reveal how central the MA is to shaping the purpose and identity of contemporary English studies. This collection provides a substantive discussion that goes beyond questioning the state of English studies—it points to curricular, programmatic, and professional innovations that are transforming the field, calling for new dialogue in higher education about the pivotal role of the MA in English.
282 pp. | 2016 | College | ISBN 9780814110799 $30.36 member/$37.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814110805
