The book in its whole provides a thorough and accessible approach to understanding genre and its application in classrooms. Chapter 6 focuses on the rhetorical understanding of genre.
Looks at the development of reading motivation, engagement, and achievement by comparing struggling and advanced readers in each of these elements.
This website provides an overview of principles of effective vocabulary instruction as well as ideas for vocabulary study geared specifically towards supporting English language learners.
This lesson shares a Ute tale with students to help them to use illustrations to help clarify text details and sequence. The story is then used to help engage students in a discussion on bullying, how actions have consequences and what the characteristics are of a good friend.Background information gives teachers resources to help their students learn more about the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation. The lesson is an integrated English Language Arts, Social Studies, Health lesson.
This book includes a comprehensive look at sociolinguistic aspects of the English language, such as historical, cultural, and environmental influences.
Facilitating student-to-student discussion provides students an opportunity to deliberate essential questions facing their community. This is an authentic practice to build and practice content knowledge, civic skills, and dispositions.
In this Cult of Pedagogy podcast, Kristy Louden offers some practical suggestions for teachers to use as they give feedback to student writing throughout the writing process. The goal in delaying the grade is to help students apply feedback rather than see it as a final assessment of their work.
This page from the American Psychological Association contains explanations and descriptions of adolescent development in a number of areas, such as social development, emotional development, and physical development. The information, while technical, is applicable and useful to teachers.
The author presents detailed lessons for engaging students in contrastive analysis and exploring code-switching in words by Zora Neale Hurston, Lorraine Hansberry, Harper Lee, and others.
Utilizing their school-issued iPad or personal phone, students will capture their own images to represent literary elements from their personal reading book. This assignment is designed to blend principles from digital photography, design, and reading literature standards to demonstrate deeper understanding and critical thinking skills. This lesson plan was created by Andrea Settle. "The Flying Book Collage" by Antonio TwizShiz Edward is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
This is a brief summary of the difference between content area reading and disciplinary literacy.
Deepen your understanding in the English Language Arts standards by reading research on developmentally appropriate practice.This module will include ideas of how you can implement these standards into your daily lessons, and allows you to learn at your own pace.
Find strategies and activities that you can use in the classroom that tie directly to the Early learning Preschool core standards.
Although this blog title emphasizes teaching students to analyze nontraditional texts, teachers too will appreciate the strategies the author suggests for learning to conduct textual analysis.
This article outlines principles for designing student interest surveys.
Includes suggestions for how to increase student engagement and participation during class discussions.
The author describes an eighth-grade language unit that helps students understand the value of dialects and standardized English.
Provides evidence-based strategies to support students (geared towards a university audience but many of the suggestions can be adapted/used in secondary contexts).
In this online book, Traci Gardner defines the process of standards-based writing assignment design and assessment with a research-based approach.
This is an example of the Genre Planning Chart you will submit for Evidence of Preparation and Planning.