Jago offers a review of Freytag's Pyramid and an example of how work with the concept of plot structure positively affected student understanding and writing.
Stop Pretending and Think about Plot
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From Sheryl Crow to Homer Simpson: Literature and Composition through Pop Culture
7 - 12
Professional Library
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High school teacher Jerome Evans makes popular culture an integral part of his courses. Through analyzing themes in song lyrics, rhetorical devices in essays and advertisements, and psychology in contemporary film, students improve their skills in critical thinking and writing.
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Living Voices: Multicultural Poetry in the Middle School Classroom
6 - 8
Professional Library
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Jaime Wood offers middle school English language arts teachers material for teaching poetry by Nikki Giovanni, Li-Young Lee, and Pat Mora; the text includes graphic organizers and other resources.
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Math Is Language Too: Talking and Writing in the Mathematics Classroom
3 - 6
Professional Library
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Replete with children's stories and illustrations, Math Is Language Too looks at children as sense-makers, storytellers, language creators, and problem-posers.
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New Visions for Linking Literature and Mathematics
K - 6
Professional Library
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David and Phyllis Whitin offer K–6 teachers a wealth of ideas for integrating literature and mathematics.
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Teaching Poetry in High School
9 - 12
Professional Library
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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
Professional Library
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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.
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Go Public!: Encouraging Student Writers to Publish
6 - 12
Professional Library
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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.
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Wordplaygrounds: Reading, Writing, and Performing Poetry in the English Classroom
7 - 12
Professional Library
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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
Professional Library
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Dean synthesizes theory and research about genres and provides secondary-level teachers with practical classroom applications.
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Designing Writing Assignments
9 - 12
Professional Library
| Book
Traci Gardner offers practical tips, starting points, and a companion website to help secondary and college teachers design effective writing assignments.
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Preventing Plagiarism: Tips and Techniques
9 - 12
Professional Library
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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
Professional Library
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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.
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Getting the Knack: 20 Poetry Writing Exercises
6 - 12
Professional Library
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Dunning and Stafford, both widely known poets and educators, offer this delightful manual of exercises for beginning poets.
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Lesson Plans for Creating Media-Rich Classrooms
7 - 12
Professional Library
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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.
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Standards for the English Language Arts
K - 12
Professional Library
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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.
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Language Learners in the English Classroom
7 - 12
Professional Library
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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.
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Reading in the Reel World: Teaching Documentaries and Other Nonfiction Texts
7 - 12
Professional Library
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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.
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Group and Self-Evaluation
6 - 12
Printout
| Assessment Tool
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
| Graphic Organizer
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.