What it means to read and write has changed, making this an exhilarating and daunting time to be an English teacher. As teachers, Robert Rozema and Allen Webb understand this and offer a vision of how to teach with emerging tools in ways that amplify student learning. - Sara B. Kajder Author of The Tech-Savvy English Classroom Read the technology book that's about the content, not the computer. Literature and the Web is a thoughtful, nuts-and-bolts guide for any English teacher looking for effective tools to boost readers' engagement and improve their responses to literature. Adolescents love being online: browsing, blogging, socializing. Robert Rozema and Allen Webb show you how to tap into students' understanding and enthusiasm for the Net to find deeper meaning in literary texts. Rozema and Webb's proven strategies harness the power of the Web to: <ul>
<li>guide students into the world of the story </li> <li>develop their close reading ability </li> <li>scaffold their understanding of a text's social, cultural, and historical contexts </li> <li>provide them with authentic opportunities to respond to the text. </li> </ul> From novels to short stories to poetry. From mythology to Milton to Orwell. Literature and the Web has ideas that will help crack open texts for any reader. Each of its chapters presents a different online strategy for guiding students through widely taught texts and even includes ways to use Web-based ideas in an offline setting. And Rozema and Webb provide blueprints for dozens of lessons, activities, and projects that are detailed enough to use tomorrow yet flexible enough for any context. Literature and the Web isn't just another book on shiny new technologies. Read it and give your students tools they'll enjoy as they build a greater love of literature.

Literature and the Web: Reading and Responding with New Technologies

Literature & Fiction

Webb, Allen

Rozema, Robert

History & Criticism

Heinemann

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 this need. It delineates a literacy practices and critical engagement curriculum framework for 6-12 English language arts education that explains and illustrates how the Standards’ highest and best intentions for student success can be implemented from a critical, culturally relevant perspective that is firmly grounded in current literacy learning theory and research.  The first 6-12 English language arts methods text to be aligned with the Standards, this book also addresses their limitations ― formalist assumptions about literacy learning, limited attention to media/digital literacies, lack of attention to critical literacies, and questionable assumptions about linking standards and text complexity to specific grade levels. Specific examples of teachers using the literacy practices/critical engagement curriculum framework in their classrooms shows how these limitations can be surpassed.  Features • Moves the CCSS framework into a view that literacy is a contextualized, social practice • Challenges simplistic models that homogenize adolescent learners  • Adds the important element of critical literacy to English language arts classrooms • Provides specific examples of teachers in action implementing these practices • Interactive Companion Website with student and instructor resources. The Website is designed to foster interactivity through participation in an online teaching planning simulation with a text, video, or case on one side of the screen and a chat box for instructors and students to share their reactions and planning ideas. The Companion Website is linked to a wiki that serves as a repository for links, activities/units, and further reading.    

Education & Teaching

Beach, Richard

Thein, Amanda Haertling

Schools & Teaching

Routledge

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 this need. It delineates a literacy practices and critical engagement curriculum framework for 6-12 English language arts education that explains and illustrates how the Standards’ highest and best intentions for student success can be implemented from a critical, culturally relevant perspective that is firmly grounded in current literacy learning theory and research. The first 6-12 English language arts methods text to be aligned with the Standards, this book also addresses their limitations ― formalist assumptions about literacy learning, limited attention to media/digital literacies, lack of attention to critical literacies, and questionable assumptions about linking standards and text complexity to specific grade levels. Specific examples of teachers using the literacy practices/critical engagement curriculum framework in their classrooms shows how these limitations can be surpassed. Features • Moves the CCSS framework into a view that literacy is a contextualized, social practice • Challenges simplistic models that homogenize adolescent learners • Adds the important element of critical literacy to English language arts classrooms • Provides specific examples of teachers in action implementing these practices • Interactive Companion Website with student and instructor resources. The Website is designed to foster interactivity through participation in an online teaching planning simulation with a text, video, or case on one side of the screen and a chat box for instructors and students to share their reactions and planning ideas. The Companion Website is linked to a wiki that serves as a repository for links, activities/units, and further reading.

This is a new Fourth Edition of the enlarged Third Edition of the Greater Washington Area Bicycle Atlas (1985), edited by Ken Moskowitz, with maps by Allen Webb. The Fourth Edition was edited by Charles Baughman, Bonnie Nevel, and Bill Silverman.

Greater Washington Area Bicycle Atlas

Moskowitz, Ken

Potomac Area Council

Teaching to Exceed in the English Language Arts

Timely, thoughtful, and comprehensive, this text directly supports pre-service and in-service teachers in developing curriculum and instruction that both addresses and exceeds the requirements of English language arts standards. It demonstrates how the Common Core State Standards as well as other local and national standards’ highest and best intentions for student success can be implemented from a critical, culturally relevant perspective firmly grounded in current literacy learning theory and research. 
The third edition frames ELA instruction around adopting a justice, inquiry, and action approach that supports students in their schools and community contexts. Offering new ways to respond to current issues and events, the text provides specific examples of teachers employing the justice, inquiry, and action curriculum framework to promote critical engagement and learning. Chapters cover common problems and challenges, alternative models, and theories of language arts teaching. The framework, knowledge, and guidance in this book shows how ELA standards can not only be addressed but also surpassed through engaging instruction to foster truly diverse and inclusive classrooms. 
The third edition provides new material on: 
adopting a justice, inquiry, and action approach to enhance student engagement and critical thinking 
planning instruction to effectively implement standards in the classroom 
teaching literary and informational texts, with a focus on authors of color 
integrating drama activities into literature 
teaching informational, explanatory, argumentative, and narrative writing 
supporting bilingual/ELL students 
using digital tools and apps to respond to and create digital texts 
addressing how larger contextual and political factors shape instruction 
fostering preservice teacher development

Teaching to Exceed in the English Language Arts: A Justice, Inquiry, and Action Approach for 6-12 Classrooms

Boyd, Ashley S.

Teaching Climate Change to Adolescents

CO-PUBLISHED BY ROUTLEDGE AND THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH Teaching Climate Change to Adolescents is THE essential resource for middle and high school English language arts teachers to help their students understand and address the urgent issues and challenges facing life on Earth today. Classroom activities written and used by teachers show students posing questions, engaging in argumentative reading and writing and critical analysis, interpreting portrayals of climate change in literature and media, and adopting advocacy stances to promote change. The book illustrates climate change fitting into existing courses using already available materials and gives teachers tools and teaching ideas to support building this into their own classrooms. A variety of teacher and student voices makes for an appealing, fast-paced, and inspiring read. Visit the website for this book for additional information and links.  All royalties from the sale of this book are donated to Alliance for Climate Education.

Teaching Climate Change to Adolescents: Reading, Writing, and Making a Difference

Science & Math

Share, Jeff

Earth Sciences

Teaching to Exceed the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards: A Critical Inquiry Approach for 6-12 Classrooms

Timely, thoughtful, and comprehensive, this text directly supports pre-service and in-service teachers in developing curriculum and instruction that both addresses and exceeds the requirements of the Common Core State Standards. Adopting a critical inquiry approach, it demonstrates how the Standards’ highest and best intentions for student success can be implemented from a critical, culturally relevant perspective firmly grounded in current literacy learning theory and research. It provides specific examples of teachers using the critical inquiry curriculum framework of identifying problems and issues, adopting alternative perspectives, and entertaining change in their classrooms to illustrate how the Standards can not only be addressed but also surpassed through engaging instruction. The Second Edition provides new material on <ul>
<li>adopting a critical inquiry approach to enhance student engagement and critical thinking</li> <li>planning instruction to effectively implement the CCSS in the classroom</li> <li>fostering critical response to literary and informational texts</li> <li>using YA literature and literature by authors of color </li> <li>integrating drama activities into literature and speaking/listening instruction</li> <li>teaching informational, explanatory, argumentative, and narrative writing</li> <li>working with ELL students to address the language Standards</li> <li>using digital tools and apps to respond to and create digital texts</li> <li>employing formative assessment to provide supportive feedback</li> <li>preparing students for the PARCC and Smarter Balanced assessments</li> <li>using the book’s wiki site http://englishccss.pbworks.com for further resources</li> </ul>

Timely, thoughtful, and comprehensive, this text directly supports pre-service and in-service teachers in developing curriculum and instruction that both addresses and exceeds the requirements of the Common Core State Standards. Adopting a critical inquiry approach, it demonstrates how the Standards’ highest and best intentions for student success can be implemented from a critical, culturally relevant perspective firmly grounded in current literacy learning theory and research. It provides specific examples of teachers using the critical inquiry curriculum framework of identifying problems and issues, adopting alternative perspectives, and entertaining change in their classrooms to illustrate how the Standards can not only be addressed but also surpassed through engaging instruction. The Second Edition provides new material on <ul>
<li>adopting a critical inquiry approach to enhance student engagement and critical thinking</li> <li>planning instruction to effectively implement the CCSS in the classroom</li> <li>fostering critical response to literary and informational texts</li> <li>using YA literature and literature by authors of color</li> <li>integrating drama activities into literature and speaking/listening instruction</li> <li>teaching informational, explanatory, argumentative, and narrative writing</li> <li>working with ELL students to address the language Standards</li> <li>using digital tools and apps to respond to and create digital texts</li> <li>employing formative assessment to provide supportive feedback</li> <li>preparing students for the PARCC and Smarter Balanced assessments</li> <li>using the book’s wiki site http://englishccss.pbworks.com for further resources</li> </ul>

7 Is Enough

Biographies & Memoirs

Xlibris US

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Literature and the Web: Reading and Responding with New Technologies

Teaching to Exceed the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards: A Literacy Practices Approach for 6-12 Classrooms

Teaching to Exceed the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards: A Literacy Practices Approach for 6-12 Classrooms

Greater Washington Area Bicycle Atlas

Teaching to Exceed in the English Language Arts: A Justice, Inquiry, and Action Approach for 6-12 Classrooms

Teaching to Exceed in the English Language Arts

Teaching Climate Change to Adolescents: Reading, Writing, and Making a Difference

Teaching to Exceed the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards: A Critical Inquiry Approach for 6-12 Classrooms

Teaching to Exceed the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards: A Critical Inquiry Approach for 6-12 Classrooms

7 Is Enough