language arts (secondary)

Presents a variety of practical research-based strategies to help teachers engage students in advancing their reading and writing skills in the classroom.

Presents more than one hundred standards-based lessons for fifth to ninth graders that use picture books to teach about literary elements, including characters, setting, plot, theme, and style.

The author describes what she has learned about teaching, writing, and reading over twenty-five years as an English teacher, focusing on her experiences after she freed herself and students from a regimented curriculum.

A guide for reading/writing instructors discussing the how-tos of helping students choose topics that are important to them, prompting initial responses to literature, using writing as a tool for thinking and inquiring, improving poor student research writing, and planning curriculums that focus on story.

Describes approaches and activities for teaching English to students in grades seven through twelve, arranged chronologically to parallel the school year, covering classroom atmosphere, lesson planning, workshop classrooms, portfolio projects, and other topics.

Encourages teachers to structure literacy education around clearly stated, essential questions, and describes how this approach can increase a student's abilities for comprehension and retention.

Explores how a truly collaborative environment forms the core of literary experiences and offers suggestions on how teachers can develop the same environment in their classrooms.

Provides twenty research-based literacy strategies designed to help students meet the common core standards.

Offers teachers a variety of practical strategies designed to help them assist middle and high school students who struggle with reading and writing.