Intermediate Senior English

English in Middle and Secondary Classrooms: Creative and Critical Advice from Canada’s Teacher Educators presents a variety of teaching strategies and resources to help educators create relevant and rewarding English classes. It contains numerous short essays on a wide variety of topics written by contributors from across Canada and from a variety of teaching backgrounds. The authors offer practical pedagogical suggestions, theoretical frames, anecdotal experiences, and background resources to plan and deliver engaging English lessons. Reflecting the current areas of concern in ELA education, each reading highlights the many possibilities for enhancing creativity and critical engagement in classroom activities, adjusting to rapid changes in technology, how to best inc

This cutting-Edge Guide Presents Multiple approaches to teaching poetry at the middle and high school levels. Let's Poem will show you how to preserve the fun of poetry while also developing critical writing and analysis skills, how to introduce your students to the basic formal elements of classic and contemporary poetry, and how to expand their repertoires through the use of digital technology and the Internet. Chapters cover choral reading of poetry, writing about race, jazz poetry and other cultural forms, hip-hop and spoken word poetry, multimodal "remixing" of canonical poems, the use of poems form international settings and authors, and more. --

Professional poets spend many hours crafting a finished piece of work, yet we expect children in school to sit down and write when they are told to, whether they feel inspired or not. This series of four books is a toolkit to help you build a positive framework for children to read, write, understand and enjoy poetry - to bring a creative spark to the poetry classroom. A combination of featured poems, creative ideas, structured lesson plans and differentiated photocopiable activity sheets gives the series a uniquely flexible approach - which means you can use the materials in any classroom context.--Page [4] of cover.

"This book is about teaching writing and the gritty particulars of teaching adolescents. But it is also the planning, the thinking, the writing, the journey: all I've been putting into my teaching for the last two decades. This is the book I wanted when I was first given ninth graders and a list of novels to teach. This is a book of vision and hope and joy, but it is also a book of genre units and minilessons and actual conferences with students." -Penny Kittle  

Throughout the book's four sections, organized to help the teaching of tightly aligned lessons and units on reading and writing narrative, teachers will discover kid-friendly approaches to virtually every matter of craft. There is clear guidance on the intention of each lesson, the type of narrative genre it′s ideally suited for, and step-by-step plans. Complete with practical suggestions on adapting the lessons to suit the particular needs of every classroom as well as individual students, Writers Reader Better: Narrative offers a solid foundation for giving students the advantage of powerful, transferable literacy skills.