English Books

New and Published Books

1. Teaching Classroom Drama and Theatre

   Practical Projects for Secondary Schools, 2nd Edition

   By Martin Lewis, John Rainer

   This revised and updated edition of Teaching Classroom Drama and Theatre will be an essential text for anyone teaching drama in the modern classroom. It presents a model teachers can use to draw together different methodologies of drama and theatre studies, exemplified by a series of contemporary,...

   Published May 24th 2012 by Routledge
2. Teaching to Exceed the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards

   A Literacy Practices Approach for 6-12 Classrooms

   By Richard Beach, Amanda Haertling Thein, Allen Webb

   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
3. How to be a Brilliant English Teacher

   2nd Edition

   By Trevor Wright

   Now in its second edition, Trevor Wright’s hugely popular How to be a Brilliant English Teacher is packed with practical advice drawn from his extensive and successful experience as an English teacher, examiner and teacher trainer. This accessible and readable guide offers sound theoretical...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
4. Hit the Headlines

   Exciting journalism activities for improving writing and thinking skills

   By Colin Macfarlane

   Hit the Headlines charts out a series of fun and inspiring, cross-curricular journalism workshops that enhance key skills and confidence in areas such as: Writing and editing. Critical assessment. Interviewing and observation. Mental flexibility and resourcefulness. Role-playing and...

   Published May 6th 2012 by Routledge
5. Creativity and Learning in Secondary English

   Teaching for a creative classroom

   By Andrew McCallum

   Creativity in secondary English lessons today is a democratically conceived quality that all pupils are expected to achieve and a resource on which all are entitled to draw. But what exactly is creativity? And how does it relate to English? Creativity and Learning in Secondary English answers these...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
6. The Essential Charles Dickens School Resource

   Contemporary Approaches to Teaching Classic Texts Ages 7-14

   By Gill Robins, Laura-Jane Evans-Jones

   Charles Dickens is arguably the greatest storyteller in English Literature and his novels have been loved and respected for nearly two hundred years. As accurate reflections of Victorian society they are unparalleled. Vivid characters and realistic settings are created in the mind of the reader,...

   Published February 6th 2012 by Routledge
7. Using Comic Art to Improve Speaking, Reading and Writing

   By Steve Bowkett

   Using Comic Art to Improve Speaking, Reading and Writing uses children’s interest in pictures, comics and graphic novels as a way of developing their creative writing abilities, reading skills and oracy. The book’s underpinning strategy is the use of comic art images as a visual analogue to help...

   Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge
8. Reconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents' Lives

   Bridging the Everyday/Academic Divide, Third Edition

   Edited by Donna E. Alvermann, Kathleen A. Hinchman

   Like previous editions, the third edition of Reconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents’ Lives invites middle- and high-school educators to move toward a broad, generative view of adolescent literacies. Recognizing that digital media, social networking phenomena are now central in adolescents’...

   Published December 11th 2011 by Routledge
9. Teaching Poetry

   Reading and responding to poetry in the secondary classroom

   By Amanda Naylor, Audrey Wood

   Teaching Poetry is an indispensible source of guidance, confidence and ideas for all those new to the secondary English classroom. Written by experienced teachers who have worked with the many secondary pupils who ‘don’t get’ poetry, this friendly guide will help you support pupils as they access,...

   Published December 6th 2011 by Routledge
10. The Media Teacher's Handbook

    Edited by Elaine Scarratt, Jon Davison

    The Media Teacher’s Handbook is an indispensible guide for all teachers, both specialist and non-specialist, delivering Media Studies and media education in secondary schools and colleges. It is the first text to draw together the three key elements of secondary sector teaching in relation to...

    Published December 1st 2011 by Routledge