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With Rigor for All, Second Edition

Carol Jago

Pub Date: 7/14/2011
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 6th - 12th

“The stakes are high. Without artful instruction, many students will never acquire the literacy skills they need not only to meet Common Core Standards but also to meet the challenges this brave new world is sure to deal them.” —Carol Jago Again and again the Common Core Standards state that students must read “proficiently and... more

Reading Ladders

Teri Lesesne

Pub Date: 2/14/2010
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 4th - 12th

Many of us are searching continually for that just-right book for each and every one of our students. It is my hope to help you find those books. More importantly, I hope to help you guide students to the next great book and the one after that. That is the purpose of Reading Ladders. Because it is not sufficient to find just one... more

Literature and the Web

Allen Webb , Robert Rozema

Pub Date: 7/22/2008
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 7th - 12th

  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... more

Reading for Themselves

Deborah Appleman

Pub Date: 8/15/2006
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 9th - 12th

Deborah Appleman is a dynamo…. [A] positive energy of possibility is reflected in all her work, including the book you hold in your hands now. —Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, coauthor of Reading Don’t Fix No Chevys Just as adolescents aren’t only students, literate behaviors aren’t only for school. Engaging students... more

How Does It Mean?

Lisa Schade-Eckert

Pub Date: 7/31/2006
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 9th - 12th

This book is nothing short of fantastic. —Leila Christenbury, coauthor of Writing on Demand When you search for ways to help reluctant readers, the often esoteric world of literary theory may not seem like a natural place to start. Yet in How Does It Mean? you’ll discover that the core ideas of literary theories translate... more

Theme-Sets for Secondary Students

Jeannine Richison , Anita Hernandez , Marcia Carter

Pub Date: 1/30/2006
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 9th - 12th

No longer do secondary teachers have to feel married to the classics and divorced from their students. Theme-Sets for Secondary Students bridges the gap. —Cris Tovani So many reading and writing levels, so many different backgrounds and interests, and so many instructional needs. In the English classroom the need for differentiation... more

Naming the World

Nancie Atwell

Pub Date: 12/19/2005
Product Type: PREPACK
Grade: 6th - 8th

Harnessing the power of poetry, Nancie Atwell's Naming the World: A Year of Poems and Lessons empowers adolescents to make sense of their personal place in the world while honing their critical reading and writing skills. Naming the World's 200+ poems and accompanying five-to-ten-minute lessons are used by Nancie every day to jumpstart... more

When Text Meets Text

Barbara King-Shaver

Pub Date: 8/8/2005 1
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 9th - 12th

It's not enough for students to just understand a text. In order for students to achieve academic excellence and succeed in today's society, they must also be able to exercise critical awareness over what they read. But how do you cultivate comprehension and help kids sharpen their analytical skills? The answer, writes Barbara... more

Making Meaning with Texts

Louise Rosenblatt

Pub Date: 1/27/2005
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 7th - College

No one has contributed more to our understanding of the relationship between readers and texts than Louise Rosenblatt. Her classic Literature as Exploration—now in its fifth edition—introduced the transactional theory of reading and pioneered a revolution that continues today in classrooms where reading and literature... more

Response & Analysis, Second Edition

Robert Probst

Pub Date: 6/28/2004
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 7th - 12th

In this fully updated second edition of Response and Analysis, Robert Probst leads you to fresh methods that build lifelong lovers of reading by opening your literature classroom to the power of student-driven interpretation and analysis. The second edition is chocked full of everything you need to plan and build a curriculum that... more