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Going with the Flow

Pub Date: 1/6/2006 1
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 6th - 12th

Why do boys embrace literate behaviors outside of school but reject them inside school? How can adolescents connect their outside-of-school literacy to school purposes? How can we use the present instructional moment to encourage students to continue growing as readers and writers in the future? Michael Smith and Jeffrey Wilhelm... 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

Gender in Urban Education

Shirley Brown , Alice Ginsberg , Joan Shapiro

Pub Date: 7/22/2004
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 7th - 12th

Teachers who want to tackle gender questions now have an incredible teaching assistant—this book.—David SadkerIn the 1990s, several books argued that girls need more special attention in school than boys. In the 2000s, other books have said it's boys that need the special attention. Not this smart and timely book. Instead... more

Teenage Boys and High School English

Bruce Pirie

Pub Date: 8/21/2002
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 9th - 12th

Practicing high school English teacher and author Bruce Pirie has found the evidence unmistakable: teenage boys are not as successful in English studies as girls. Boys are also less likely to enjoy reading or see themselves as committed English students. Why is that? And, more importantly, what can a teacher do about it? His book... more

Reading Don't Fix No Chevys

Jeffrey Wilhelm , Michael Smith

Pub Date: 3/12/2002
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 7th - 12th

The problems of boys in schools, especially in reading and writing, have been the focus of statistical data, but rarely does research point out how literacy educators can combat those problems. That situation has changed. Michael Smith and Jeff Wilhelm, two of the most respected names in English education and in the teaching of reading,... more

Weaving In the Women

Elizabeth Whaley , Elizabeth Dodge

Pub Date: 9/30/1999
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 6th - 12th

All English teachers should have Weaving In the Women on their bookshelves. This important text provides a wealth of pedagogical and bibliographic resources for enriching a high school literary curriculum.—Margaret Finders, Author of Just GirlsWhere are the role models for young women in high school English texts? Why should... more

Breaking the Cycle

Lynne Alvine , Linda Cullum

Pub Date: 9/28/1999
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 6th - 12th

The careful research, heartrending stories, and comprehensive resource lists . . . will be invaluable to teachers, parents, and girls themselves.—Maureen Barbieri, Author of Sounds from the HeartThe research is in on how gender bias affects literacy learning, and now it's time to put that research into practice. It's time to... more

Sounds from the Heart

Maureen Barbieri

Pub Date: 3/20/1995
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 6th - 10th

This book should be read by anyone who cares about adolescent girls and how they learn, but especially by teachers of grades 6-12. . . . This is a book of enormous love and hope, one that has made me rethink my own teaching of adolescents and the role I might play in helping my girls become strong, self-confident women.—Nancie... more

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