Sensitive to the increased importance of valuing diversity and diverse points of view since 9/11, this article describes activities through which ESL students contribute new knowledge to their classes while simultaneously improving their English language skills.
![Sharing Stories and Developing Multiple Perspectives in Post-9/11 Classrooms](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/361_2.jpg?h=031b01a4&itok=KIVhUeo9)
Sharing Stories and Developing Multiple Perspectives in Post-9/11 Classrooms
![I-Search in the Age of Information](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/368_2.jpg?h=031b01a4&itok=JERvT0DZ)
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I-Search in the Age of Information
9 - 12
Professional Library
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Middle school teacher Huntington Lyman takes a fresh look at the I-Search research method and shows how it can be modified to provide an effective project for middle school students.
![Ethics as a Form of Critical and Rhetorical Inquiry in the Writing Classroom](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/369_2.jpg?h=031b01a4&itok=iflnY7cs)
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Ethics as a Form of Critical and Rhetorical Inquiry in the Writing Classroom
9 - 12
Professional Library
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What can improve students' engagement in persuasive writing? A strong ethical dilemma and strategies for developing intelligent responses.
![The Middle School High Five: Strategies Can Triumph](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/390_2.jpg?h=031b01a4&itok=Y0LkalvC)
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The Middle School High Five: Strategies Can Triumph
5 - 8
Professional Library
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A literacy support teacher leads a district-wide initiative to organize content-area teachers in an effort to help their students become better readers by offering instruction and practice in five reading strategies across the curriculum.
![NCTE Language Arts journal](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/2021-06/NCTE-la-square.jpg?h=031b01a4&itok=HbHQBEzl)
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Language Arts
K - 8
Professional Library
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![Writing with Voice](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/615_0.jpg?h=031b01a4&itok=ZZZ0HZxm)
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Writing with Voice
5 - 9
Professional Library
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Tom Romano leads students to allow themselves creative freedom while developing the patience to hone that first rush into a tight and effective piece of writing with voice.
![Pamphlets: An Introduction to Research Techniques](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/616_0.jpg?h=031b01a4&itok=Rxm2-OcR)
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Pamphlets: An Introduction to Research Techniques
8 - 12
Professional Library
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Describes a four- to six-week project for high school sophomores in which students create pamphlets and in the process learn basic research skills and practice several elements of the research paper.
![Research Matters: What Kinds of Classroom Discussion Promote Reading Comprehension?](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/617_0.jpg?h=031b01a4&itok=wrOEdedo)
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Research Matters: What Kinds of Classroom Discussion Promote Reading Comprehension?
8 - 12
Professional Library
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"Research Matters" provides teachers with review and application of research that illuminates the daily concerns and activities of English language arts teachers and classrooms.
![Position Statement on Multimodal Literacies](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/618_0.png?h=d28b8abe&itok=qAg8OW7p)
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Position Statement on Multimodal Literacies
K - 12
Professional Library
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This position on Multimodal Literacies is a summary statement developed by the Multimodal Literacies Issue Management Team of the NCTE Executive Committee.
![Let's Go to the Movies: Rethinking the Role of Film in the Elementary Classroom](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/619_0.jpg?h=031b01a4&itok=BHV46yhm)
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Let's Go to the Movies: Rethinking the Role of Film in the Elementary Classroom
K - 8
Professional Library
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Argues that elementary language-arts teachers should expand their definition of "text" to include film, a valuable instructional material. Notes that today's elementary students come to class with a great deal of knowledge about films--prior experiences which teachers can tap into. Discusses the application to film of reader-response theories.
![Building Community through Poetry: A Role for Imagination in the Classroom](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/620_0.jpg?h=031b01a4&itok=HzHHZDNK)
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Building Community through Poetry: A Role for Imagination in the Classroom
8 - 12
Professional Library
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Methods such as the circle poem, the "poetic interview," the found poem, and the poetic field trip are just some used by the author to create an atmosphere of mutual support and enable students to initiate "imaginative possibilities."
![Using Short Story Collections to Enrich the English Classroom](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/621_0.jpg?h=031b01a4&itok=wSkIpt3j)
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Using Short Story Collections to Enrich the English Classroom
8 - 12
Professional Library
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Describes ways short story collections can be integrated into the English curriculum, including a short story fair, a short story hunt, using single short stories to extend a unit, using a short story by itself, using a collection as a whole, and using short stories as part of a focus on writing. Offers a list of short story resources.
![Menu Magic!](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/622_0.jpg?h=031b01a4&itok=L12ZmibE)
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Menu Magic!
5 - 9
Professional Library
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This article helps eighth graders review the power of adjectives. Students eat up this project that promises to deliver the opportunity to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate while giving students the chance to work in cooperative groups. All in all, it's an appetizing way to get kids focused on descriptive writing.
![Expanding Vision: Teaching Haiku](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/623_0.jpg?h=031b01a4&itok=7rbT759K)
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Expanding Vision: Teaching Haiku
8 - 12
Professional Library
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Despite common misconceptions about haiku, there is a lively and vibrant haiku community throughout the United States and many other countries. Read this article for further discussion on the use of haiku in your own classroom.
![Different Texts, Different Emergent Writing Forms](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/624_0.jpg?h=031b01a4&itok=Zr6t91ao)
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Different Texts, Different Emergent Writing Forms
K - 8
Professional Library
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Examines young children's ability to vary the forms of emergent writing as they wrote a story, a shopping list, and a letter to a friend at three different times during the school year. Finds that children apply their emergent knowledge about written language differently. Indicates a considerable mismatch between written products and knowledge of genre characteristics.
![Nonfiction Inquiry: Using Real Reading and Writing to Explore the World](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/625_0.jpg?h=031b01a4&itok=dBZyJ5W8)
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Nonfiction Inquiry: Using Real Reading and Writing to Explore the World
K - 8
Professional Library
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Nonfiction is the genre most likely to spur children's passion and wonder for learning. This article discusses way to motivate children to read nonfiction.
![Language and Literacy: The Poetry Connection](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/626_0.jpg?h=031b01a4&itok=Ct-Sqzkn)
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Language and Literacy: The Poetry Connection
K - 8
Professional Library
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Offers a conceptual framework for building language awareness through the reading of poetry, encouraging children to reflect on language in interesting and powerful ways. Provides an instructional model for constructing literature-based experiences in the classroom.
![Using Children's Literature to Spark Learning](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/627_0.jpg?h=031b01a4&itok=vQOT7crX)
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Using Children's Literature to Spark Learning
8 - 12
Professional Library
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Presents two brief articles--the first discusses purposes for using children's picture books in a secondary classroom, activities for children's literature, and integrating children's books into the classroom curriculum; and the second discusses using folktales in the classroom to engage reluctant readers and writers, suggests ideas/topics for folktale writing projects, lists writing prompts, and recommends folktales.
![Undoing the Great Grammatical Scam](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/628_0.jpg?h=031b01a4&itok=v5QMj2e1)
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Undoing the Great Grammatical Scam
5 - 9
Professional Library
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Grammar should be taught in the context of students' own writing: "we learn what we actually have the opportunity to practice and do in the real world."
![To Grammar or Not to Grammar: That Is Not the Question!](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/629_0.jpg?h=031b01a4&itok=IH_gKlK1)
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To Grammar or Not to Grammar: That Is Not the Question!
5 - 9
Professional Library
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Argues that, taught in the context of writing, grammar can enhance and improve students' writing. Offers classroom examples showing how: good preparation for writing fosters good grammar and detail; students can use grammatical and syntactic constructions used by professional authors as models for their own writing; and how to help students learn revision strategies at the sentence and paragraph level.