Discover an innovative, evidence-based method for preparing students for the demands of college writing called Supporting Strategic Writers (SSW). The goal of SSW is to help students become independent learners who understand the value of strategies and can apply them flexibly in future courses and the workplace. The text provides genre-based ......
7 Community-Building Workshops for Teaching Language Arts (Grades 6-12)
The guided workshops depicted in this book offer seven, ready-to-implement instructional units that walk secondary language arts teachers through practical, day-one engagements to get writers collaborating and connecting with one another. By focusing on texts from a writer's point of view, Writer to Writer offers a humanizing and fresh vision for ......
7 Community-Building Workshops for Teaching Language Arts (Grades 6-12)
The guided workshops depicted in this book offer seven, ready-to-implement instructional units that walk secondary language arts teachers through practical, day-one engagements to get writers collaborating and connecting with one another. By focusing on texts from a writer's point of view, Writer to Writer offers a humanizing and fresh vision for ......
Supporting Adolescents' Power With Academic Vocabulary
Help adolescents learn and use the academic words that will assist them in school and beyond. The author argues that "words worth using" must matter to adolescents' authentic work in the disciplines and connect to their lived experiences. Rather than using a model of vocabulary instruction that positions students as passive recipients who must ......
Supporting Adolescents' Power With Academic Vocabulary
Help adolescents learn and use the academic words that will assist them in school and beyond. The author argues that "words worth using" must matter to adolescents' authentic work in the disciplines and connect to their lived experiences. Rather than using a model of vocabulary instruction that positions students as passive recipients who must ......
Integrating Multiple Approaches to Support Adolescent Literacy
Drawing on an asset-based approach to adolescents and their literacy practices, this book is a powerful resource for secondary teachers across all content areas. The authors encourage a "widened lens" approach that considers varied perspectives and research findings when engaging in multiple and often competing initiatives, issues, and pedagogies. ......
Integrating Multiple Approaches to Support Adolescent Literacy
Drawing on an asset-based approach to adolescents and their literacy practices, this book is a powerful resource for secondary teachers across all content areas. The authors encourage a "widened lens" approach that considers varied perspectives and research findings when engaging in multiple and often competing initiatives, issues, and pedagogies. ......
Understanding ItsCognitive, Social, and Emotional Benefits
Discover the cognitive, social, emotional, and other psychological benefits of learning how to act and perform. This book looks behind the curtain of theatre education to see how thinking on stage happens in real secondary classrooms. Reporting on the first large scale systematic qualitative analyses of acting classes for adolescents, the author ......
Understanding ItsCognitive, Social, and Emotional Benefits
Discover the cognitive, social, emotional, and other psychological benefits of learning how to act and perform. This book looks behind the curtain of theatre education to see how thinking on stage happens in real secondary classrooms. Reporting on the first large scale systematic qualitative analyses of acting classes for adolescents, the author ......