language arts (secondary)

Describes strategies for using documentary films to teach students how to read and interpret nonfiction texts, and includes activities, reproducible handouts, and resources.

Contains lesson plans and worksheets intended to act as a guide for planning, writing, and publishing a newspaper.

A collection of classroom-tested techniques to stimulate literature conversations and increase student involvement, and contains sample activities, prompts, and reproducible surveys to help plan discussions.

Relates the experiences of an eighth grade teacher and her students who abandoned skill-drill approaches and became collaborating readers and writers.

Provides teachers with activities and advice designed to help them support students in grades six through twelve who are struggling with their schoolwork.

Examines how teachers can improving literacy in middle school and high school students; discussing student motivation, engagement, and achievement; integrating literacy across the curriculum; interventions for struggling readers and writers; and support from the school, parents, community, and district; and describing a school wide action plan.

Presents five composites of teachers and students using the English language arts standards developed by the National Council of Teachers of English.

Presents thematic units based on award-winning young adult novels, keeping in mind the theory of multiple intelligences and how it applies to curriculum design and assessment approaches.