Featuring a new group of 38 novels and 5 picture books, this companion title to the popular Literature Circles gives you more exciting projects to promote cooperative, literature-based learning. After students finish reading a select work of literature, this guide assists in working with them to accomplish a common educational goal. Organized around concepts and essential questions, this book helps students expand critical thinking and research skills while learning to work as a team. Grades 3-8.
What do we know about literature circles now that we didn't understand eight or ten years ago? What new resources and procedures can help teachers organize their classroom book clubs better? What are the most common pitfalls in implementing student-led discussion groups? And getting beyond the basics, what do mature or "advanced" literature circles look like?
Filled with ideas, practical tips, useful statistics and other helpful data on teen reading, this book details numerous methods for getting teens to read, such as reading workshops, literature circles, book clubs, and booktalks. An overview of YA literature and annotated bibliographies of both teen and professional reads further assists in creating a literacy game plan at your school. Grades 6-8.
In Teaching Literature scholars explain how they think about their everyday experience in the classroom, using the tools of their ongoing scholarly projects and engaging with current debates in literary studies. Until recently, teaching has played second fiddle to literary research as a mode of knowledge in academia, leaving new teachers with nowhere to turn for advice about teaching and no forum for discussion of the difficulties and opportunities they face in the classroom.
This comprehensive review book offers in-depth instruction and ample practice to help students succeed on Virginia’s SOL (Standards of Learning) EOC (End-of-Course) Test in English: Reading/Literature and Research. The book reviews key reading, literature, and research skills and prepares students for the various kinds of multiple-choice questions on the exam. Preparing for the SOL EOC English Test, Reading/Literature and Research also contains a Diagnostic Test and Checklist, and two complete Practice Tests modeled after the real exam.
