David and Phyllis Whitin offer K–6 teachers a wealth of ideas for integrating literature and mathematics.
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New Visions for Linking Literature and Mathematics
![Teaching Poetry in High School](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/682_2.jpg?h=9329b2f7&itok=od648mz3)
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Teaching Poetry in High School
9 - 12
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Albert Somers offers teachers a vast compendium of resources for teaching poetry in a highly accessible format.
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Raymond Carver in the Classroom: "A Small, Good Thing"
9 - 12
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Rubenstein offers specific, classroom-tested strategies for teaching Raymond Carver's short stories and poems in the high school English classroom.
![Go Public!: Encouraging Student Writers to Publish](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/684_2.jpg?h=fb2a6be0&itok=mtzyfhoK)
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Go Public!: Encouraging Student Writers to Publish
6 - 12
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Intended for middle and high school teachers, Go Public! offers specific writing ideas and classroom activities to help students develop the confidence and ability to publish in a wide market.
![Wordplaygrounds: Reading, Writing, and Performing Poetry in the English Classroom](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/685_2.jpg?h=28267c0d&itok=GmNXDIrS)
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Wordplaygrounds: Reading, Writing, and Performing Poetry in the English Classroom
7 - 12
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O'Connor offers new approaches to teaching poetry in middle and high school with more than 25 writing activities that can constitute an entire course or work as individual lessons.
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Genre Theory: Teaching, Writing, and Being
9 - 12
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Dean synthesizes theory and research about genres and provides secondary-level teachers with practical classroom applications.
![Designing Writing Assignments](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/691_2.jpg?h=300b7eb7&itok=kTYBSqFF)
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Designing Writing Assignments
9 - 12
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Traci Gardner offers practical tips, starting points, and a companion website to help secondary and college teachers design effective writing assignments.
![Preventing Plagiarism: Tips and Techniques](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/692_2.jpg?h=d56b97c7&itok=ieracyQP)
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Preventing Plagiarism: Tips and Techniques
9 - 12
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DeSena offers a practical guide on how high school and college teachers can structure assignments and guide students so that students don't plagiarize.
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Talking in Class: Using Discussion to Enhance Teaching and Learning
9 - 12
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The authors guide high school teachers in developing skills in promoting and facilitating authentic discussion in the English language arts classroom.
![Getting the Knack: 20 Poetry Writing Exercises](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/694_2.jpg?h=7929cb30&itok=hApNSSTQ)
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Getting the Knack: 20 Poetry Writing Exercises
6 - 12
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Dunning and Stafford, both widely known poets and educators, offer this delightful manual of exercises for beginning poets.
![Lesson Plans for Creating Media-Rich Classrooms](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/695_2.jpg?h=d61a5c8a&itok=Ca6Cr66D)
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Lesson Plans for Creating Media-Rich Classrooms
7 - 12
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This volume offers a collection of media literacy lessons for the secondary English classroom, including a CD of student handouts, teacher resources, and sample media files.
![Standards for the English Language Arts](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/696.png?h=735f7c84&itok=g_exHqGp)
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Standards for the English Language Arts
K - 12
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Standards for the English Language Arts presents a vision of literacy education that encompasses the use of print, oral, and visual language and addresses six interrelated English language arts: reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing, and visually representing.
![Language Learners in the English Classroom](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/697_2.jpg?h=0ea09629&itok=Lfrpd85u)
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Language Learners in the English Classroom
7 - 12
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This book provides practical, research-based strategies that can help secondary-level English language learners meet the challenges of both language and content learning.
![Reading in the Reel World: Teaching Documentaries and Other Nonfiction Texts](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/698_2.jpg?h=5c95395e&itok=r_CTvRbm)
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Reading in the Reel World: Teaching Documentaries and Other Nonfiction Texts
7 - 12
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John Golden offers middle and high school teachers a practical guide for using documentary film in the classroom to improve students' reading, writing, and thinking skills.
![Group and Self-Evaluation](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/158_0.jpg?h=3f42818d&itok=IIKw9tgF)
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Group and Self-Evaluation
6 - 12
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Students use this printout to evaluate both their own performance in a group as well as the actions of their group members.
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Making Connections
3 - 8
Printout
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Using this printout, students make personal associations to a text by finding and describing text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world connections.
![Narrative Pyramid](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/323_1.jpg?h=3f42818d&itok=UYPvxXsa)
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Narrative Pyramid
3 - 8
Printout
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After students read a short story or chapter of a novel, they can use the Narrative Pyramid to reflect on key ideas and details.
![Nonfiction Pyramid](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/325_0.jpg?h=3f42818d&itok=oq7uSQIg)
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Nonfiction Pyramid
3 - 8
Printout
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After students read an article or other work of nonfiction, they can use the Nonfiction Pyramid to reflect on key ideas and details in the text.
![Common Content Area Roots and Affixes](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/326_0.jpg?h=3f42818d&itok=y1B9fnWu)
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Common Content Area Roots and Affixes
5 - 12
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| Informational Sheet
This printout offers 50 or so common roots, prefixes, and affixes that give students access to hundreds of key concepts across the content areas.
![Connection Stems](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/327_0.jpg?h=3f42818d&itok=VXzNXjqG)
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Connection Stems
3 - 8
Printout
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Connection Stems give students the language (and a reminder) to support their understanding by tying new learning to what they know about themselves and their world.