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Direct linkEdge, Christi U. – Advances in Research on Teaching, 2022
Connecting the constructs of meaning and experience in the fields of English education, teacher education, literacy and narrative inquiry, "Making Meaning with Readers and Texts" materializes new insights for advancing teacher education research, broadening understandings of teachers' use of literacy practices for making meaning from…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Teacher Education Programs, Literacy Education, Inquiry
Jetton, Tamara L., Ed.; Shanahan, Cynthia, Ed. – Guilford Publications, 2012
From leading authorities in both adolescent literacy and content-area teaching, this book addresses the particular challenges of literacy learning in each of the major academic disciplines. Chapters focus on how to help students successfully engage with texts and ideas in English/literature, science, math, history, and arts classrooms. The book…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Literacy, Reading Instruction, Mathematics Instruction
Download full textHamilton, Carole L., Ed.; Kratzke, Peter, Ed. – 1999
Examining how teachers help students respond to short fiction, this book presents 25 essays that look closely at "teachable" short stories by a diverse group of classic and contemporary writers. The approaches shared by the contributors move from readers' first personal connections to a story, through a growing facility with the…
Descriptors: Class Activities, English Instruction, Literature Appreciation, Reader Response
Padgett, Ron, Ed. – 1991
Fifteen poets have created this guide to teaching the work of Walt Whitman from kindergarten to college level. In essays based on the personal experience of these imaginative writers, the guide presents practical ideas for fresh ways to read Whitman and to write poetry and prose inspired by him. The guide also includes three pieces on education by…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Creative Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction
Purves, Alan C.; And Others – 1990
Written in the same spirit as the earlier edition but thoroughly revised and updated, this book is designed to make teachers aware of reader-response theory and its implications for literature instruction and curriculum. The book demonstrates how a response-centered curriculum brings students to a greater understanding of all forms of literature…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Classroom Environment, English Curriculum, English Instruction
Lightfoot, Martin, Ed.; Martin, Nancy, Ed. – 1988
Reflecting the influence of James Britton in the field of language and learning, this book--a collection of essays by researchers and practitioners in the area of language and learning--focuses on recent issues of language development in learning. The book contains the following 27 essays: (1) "Social Interaction as Scaffold: The Power and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition
Reid, Louann, Ed.; Golub, Jeffrey N., Ed. – 1999
This book offers successful classroom practices that encourage students to learn purposefully and constructively by reflecting on their own learning processes and by making connections between what they read (whether verbal or visual texts) and the lives they lead. Extending from middle and high school through college composition and English…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Creative Writing, English Instruction, Higher Education
