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Beyond the Five Paragraph Essay
Love it or hate it, the five-paragraph essay is perhaps the most frequently taught form of writing in classrooms of yesterday and today. But have you ever actually seen five-paragraph essays outside of school walls? Have you ever found it in business writing, journalism, nonfiction, or any other genres that exist in the real world? Kimberly Hill Campbell and Kristi Latimer reviewed the research on the effectiveness of the form as a teaching tool and discovered that the research does not support the five-paragraph formula. In fact, research shows that the formula restricts creativity, emphasizes structure rather than content, does not improve standardized test scores, inadequately prepares st...
Seeking Diversity
Teacher Linda Rief recounts the result of watching, listening to, and learning from adolescents as she teaches them reading and writing in her classroom.
International Perspectives on Teaching English in a Globalised World
The renowned and highly experienced editors of this book bring together the leading voices in contemporary English education under the banner of the International Federation for the Teaching of English (IFTE). The collected chapters here represent the very best of international writing on the teaching of English in the past decade. The key issues and debates surrounding English teaching across the globe are discussed and analysed accessibly, and incorporate wide-ranging topics including: • The impact of high stakes testing on teaching and learning; • Addressing the needs of minority groups; • The digitization of literature and new conceptions of text; • Rewriting the canon; • Deali...
Marginalized Literacies
This book explores critical literacy, which aims to empower individuals and transform society by addressing inequalities. It examines approaches by Atwell, Calkins, and Rief, and is relevant to teacher educators and English Language Arts teachers. The book highlights the Readers'Writers' workshop and its role in literacy education.
Language and Cultural Diversity in U.S. Schools
Diversity is at the heart of today's education debates. Often, school policies and programs designed to encourage and embrace diversity are met with public ire and a deep misunderstanding of how diversity serves learning. This work explains how diversity is an essential element in classroom settings. As children from around the world continue to pour into U.S. classrooms, an understanding of cultural and linguistic diversity in its broadest sense moves to the foreground. In a post 9/11 world, the benefits of understanding diversity take on urgent meaning. The introdutory chapter, Participating in Democracy Means Participating in Schools, sets the tone for the discussion to follow. As the geographic backgrounds of immigrants becomes increasingly diverse, religion must be added to previous discussions of race, ethnicity, and language. Thus, the need for the public to understand how shifts in population affect schools, makes this work a vital resource for anyone concerned with education today.
English Journal
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Where to Begin
Kearns shares classroom observations, ideas from educators who have influenced her greatly, and, most of all, the trials and errors of discovering the true meaning of writing process.
Workshop
Workshop 6 invites readers into the classrooms and minds of teachers who write.
Kalewipoeg
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