Adolescent Literacy: Turning Promise Into Practice
10 best books like Adolescent Literacy: Turning Promise Into Practice (Kylene Beers): Fresh Takes on Teaching Literary Elements: How to Teach What Really Matters About Character, Setting, Point of View, and Theme, Naked Reading: Uncovering What Tweens Need to Become Lifelong Readers, Lessons That Change Writers [with Binder], Blending Genre, Altering Style: Writing Multigenre Papers, Write Beside Them: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High School Writing, Holding on to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones: Six Literacy Principles Worth Fighting for, Teaching Argument Writing, Grades 6-12: Supporting Claims with Relevant Evidence and Clear Reasoning, Boy Writers: Reclaiming Their Voices, The English Teacher's Companion: A Complete Guide to Classroom, Curriculum, and the Profession, Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?: Content Comprehension, Grades 6-12
| Author | Jeffrey D. Wilhelm |
| ISBN | 0545052564 |
Bring new power and purpose to the study of literature with innovative tools and strategies that deepen students’ understanding of literary elements and help them apply that understanding to their reading as well as their writing. Rich, original passages illuminate the intricacies of character,...
Naked Reading was inspired by the author's ten-year-old granddaughter, whose frequent practice of spending time after a shower air-drying in the privacy of the bathroom, so she can continue reading an engrossing book, made Teri Lesesne curious about what makes some tweens avid readers while others...
| Author | Nancie Atwell |
| ISBN | 0867095067 |
In Lessons That Change Writers, Nancie has narrowed and deepened her conversation with teachers, to focus on the minilesson as a vehicle for helping students improve their writing. She shares over a hundred of these writing lessons which are described by her students as "the best of the best." The lessons...
| Author | Tom Romano |
| ISBN | 0867094788 |
For Tom Romano, the multigenre paper is much more than a writing assignment. It is a multilayered, multivoiced literary experience. Genres of narrative thinking require writers to make an imaginative leap, melding the factual with the imaginative. Writers can't just tell. They must show. They must...
| Author | Penny Kittle |
| ISBN | 0325010978 |
Please join us in congratulating Penny Kittle for her 2009 NCTE Britton Award for Write Beside Them
"This book is about teaching writing and the gritty particulars of teaching adolescents. But it is also the planning, the thinking, the writing, the journey: all I've been putting into my teaching...
| Author | Thomas Newkirk |
| ISBN | 0325021236 |
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"Holding On to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones is my new favorite book about how to live as a teacher. Finishing it, I experienced what I can only describe as a state of grace-moved, renewed, and grateful...
| Author | George Hillocks Jr. |
| ISBN | 0325013969 |
"In this book, George Hillocks teaches us not only what an argument is, but how to teach it and why we should. Essential reading for those preparing ALL students to think critically, write well, and succeed academically in both high school and college."
Jim Burke, Author of The English Teacher's...
Boy Writers: Reclaiming Their Voices
| Author | Ralph Fletcher |
| ISBN | 1571104259 |
Writing test scores indicate that boys have fallen far behind girls across the grades. In general, boys don't enjoy writing as much as girls. What's wrong? How can we do a better of job of creating “boy-friendly” classrooms so their voices can be heard?
In Boy Writers: Reclaiming Their...
| Author | Jim Burke |
| ISBN | 0325005389 |
In the four short years since publication, the first edition of "The English Teacher's Companion" quickly became the instructional bible for English teachers. Covering the entire English curriculum, from basic reading and writing to digital literacy, media literacy, and integrated instruction,...
| Author | Cris Tovani |
| ISBN | 1571103767 |
“Do I really have to teach reading?” This is the question many teachers of adolescents are asking, wondering how they can possibly add a new element to an already overloaded curriculum. And most are finding that the answer is “yes.” If they want their students to learn complex new concepts in...
| Author | Kelly Gallagher |
| ISBN | 1571108963 |
If you want to learn how to shoot a basketball, you begin by carefully observing someone who knows how to shoot a basketball. If you want to be a writer, you begin by carefully observing the work of accomplished writers. Recognizing the importance that modeling plays in the learning process, high school...
| Author | Janet Allen |
| ISBN | 1571100857 |
Do you spend hours creating word lists and weekly vocabulary tests only to find that your students have "forgotten" the words by the following week? Janet Allen and her students were frustrated with the same problem. Words, Words, Words describes the research that changed the way she and many other...
| Author | Harvey Daniels |
| ISBN | 1571103333 |
What do we know about literature circles now that we didn't understand eight or ten years ago? What new resources and procedures can help teachers organize their classroom book clubs better? What are the most common pitfalls in implementing student-led discussion groups? And getting beyond the basics,...
| Author | Jeff Anderson |
| ISBN | 1571104127 |
Some teachers love grammar and some hate it, but nearly all struggle to find ways of making the mechanics of English meaningful to kids. As a middle school teacher, Jeff Anderson also discovered that his students were not grasping the basics, and that it was preventing them from reaching their potential...
Because Writing Matters: Improving Student Writing in Our Schools, Revised Edition
| Author | Carl Nagin |
| ISBN | 0787980676 |
ch. 1:
"Writing has to be learned in school very much the same way that it is practiced out of school. This means that the writer has a reason to write, an intended audience, and control of subject and form. It also means that composing is staged across various phases of rumination, investigation,...
Reading Don't Fix No Chevys: Literacy in the Lives of Young Men
| Author | Michael W. Smith |
| ISBN | 0867095091 |
The problems of boys in schools, especially in reading and writing, have been the focus of statistical data, but rarely does research point out how literacy educators can combat those problems. That situation has changed. Michael Smith and Jeff Wilhelm, two of the most respected names in English education...
