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Teaching to Exceed the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards
A Literacy Practices Approach for 6-12 Classrooms
As the new English Language Arts Common Core State Standards take hold across the United States, the need grows for pre-service and in-service teachers to be ready to develop curriculum and instruction that addresses their requirements. This timely, thoughtful, and comprehensive text directly meets...
Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge
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Teaching Literature to Adolescents
2nd Edition
Designed to introduce prospective English teachers to current methods of teaching literature in middle and high school classrooms, this popular textbook explores a variety of innovative approaches that incorporate reading, writing, drama, talk, and media production. Each chapter is organized around...
Published November 7th 2010 by Routledge
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High School Students' Competing Social Worlds
Negotiating Identities and Allegiances in Response to Multicultural Literature
This book examines how working-class high school students’ identity construction is continually mediated by discourses and cultural practices operating in their classroom, school, family, sports, community, and workplace worlds. Specifically, it addresses how responding to cultural...
Published July 26th 2007 by Routledge
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Teaching Literature to Adolescents
This text for pre-service and in-service English education courses presents current methods of teaching literature to middle and high school students. The methods are based on social-constructivist/socio-cultural theories of literacy learning, and incorporate research on literary response conducted...
Published July 18th 2006 by Routledge
