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Rich Novack – English Journal, 2025
This article describes literacy practices and outdoor activities in high school English classrooms--framed as critical rambling, a pedagogy seeking to raise awareness of issues like climate justice--with illustrations from a dissertation of teacher research and additional student work.
Descriptors: Language Arts, High School Teachers, Climate, Justice
Musa Saimon; Zsolt Lavicza; Tony Houghton; Fredrick Mtenzi; Pablo Carranza – Discover Education, 2025
STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) Education is one of the approaches that teachers adopt as they shift from content delivery focused teaching to skills development teaching. Also, effective STEAMING requires connection to issues outside the classroom (outdoor STEAM) and hence the coinage of the term Transdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Art Education, STEM Education, Sustainability
Erika Watts; Mandie Bevels Dunn – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2024
This study explores how English Language Arts (ELA) teachers' experiences with grief shape their approach to teaching tragic texts that explore themes of loss and tragedy. By analyzing teachers' narratives, we examine how their emotional responses to personal losses influence their pedagogical practices when dealing with tragic literature.…
Descriptors: Tragedy, Grief, Death, Coping
Deborah Appleman – Teachers College Press, 2023
Grounded in solid theory with new field-tested classroom activities, the fourth edition of "Critical Encounters in Secondary English" continues to help teachers integrate the lenses of contemporary literary theory into practices that have always defined good pedagogy. The most significant change for this edition is the addition of a full…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Secondary Education, Critical Race Theory, Interdisciplinary Approach
Stephanie F. Reid; Rita Thorson – Middle School Journal, 2024
In this article, the authors share an account of an eighth-grade personal narrative unit designed to support students in composing accounts of life during the 2020-21 pandemic school year. The article provides an overview of the four phases that comprised this nine-lesson unit and the materials and resources used. Students' voices, perspectives,…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Personal Narratives, Middle School Students
Dan Stockwell – Eye on Education, 2025
This book can help you incorporate critical literacy pedagogy into your high school English Language Arts (ELA) classroom, so that your students can use what they study in class to work toward making a more just and equitable world. Through the acronym CHANGE, the book explores how critical literacy pedagogy can support students as they Challenge…
Descriptors: High School Students, Language Arts, Critical Literacy, English Teachers
Jenkins, Eric – Communication Teacher, 2022
Courses: English Language Arts (9-12), Media Studies, Public Speaking. English Language Arts (9-12), Media Studies, Public Speaking. Objectives: The unit's goals are for students to build a foundation for analytical thinking, acquire tools for critical reading and analysis of graphic and digital texts, and use visual analysis to engage readers and…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Language Arts, Learning Activities, Thinking Skills
Kate Sjostrom – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2025
In the English classroom, narrative writing is often separated from the work of reading literature or used merely to coax reluctant students into discussing textually relevant topics. This article discusses a close writing activity, Image Explosion, that engages students in narrative writing that brings attention to the smallest details of…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Writing Instruction, Language Arts, Teaching Methods
Mousa, Manal Omar – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
Learning should be assisted by both outdoor and in-class activities that contribute to knowledge structuring. Students can energetically participate in outdoor actions and learn by doing. Learning requires an unlimited deal of participation and effort. These activities that afford firsthand experiences, support EFL students in putting theory into…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Language Arts, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Jeanne Dyches; Ashley S. Boyd; Katherine Baker; Alex Kaulfuss – Myers Education Press, 2023
Virtually all national standards now require students and teachers to understand the particulars of disciplinary literacy. But recently emerging scholarship suggests that disciplinary literacy is, by itself, an incomplete and potentially problematic approach to secondary literacy instruction. By asking students to "think like" or even…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Critical Literacy, Intellectual Disciplines, Power Structure
Marshall, Bethan – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2022
The article analyses in detail two lessons that were part of a larger research project on English teaching in Canada, England and Scotland. It considers whether the two English lessons are by their nature both dialogic and formative in practice. The research undertaken was carried out using arts-based criticism. It found that Eaglestone's notion…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dialogs (Language), Feedback (Response), Language Arts
Mary F. Wright – Voices from the Middle, 2024
This article discusses four exemplary activities to highlight imaginative approaches that encourage critical literacy: building a jackdaw, responding to text through multimodal journaling, engaging in dramatic roleplay, and practicing multi-genre writing. Each activity connects imaginative approaches to critical literacy as learners view the world…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Teaching Methods, Creativity, Preservice Teachers
Hicks, Troy – Guilford Press, 2021
Technology is integral to teaching in the English language arts, whether in-person, hybrid, or remote. In this indispensable guide, Troy Hicks shows how to teach and model "digital diligence"--an alert, intentional stance that helps both teachers and students use technology productively, ethically, and responsibly. Resources and lesson…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Technology Integration, Curriculum Development, Influence of Technology
Ann Marie Smith; Enrika Hyseni; Erick Peña Garcia – Texas Association for Literacy Education Yearbook, 2023
This article explores the benefits and problems of teaching with challenged books in the English language arts classroom. Challenged books initiate important discussions and provide opportunities for students to explore diverse perspectives. Methods for helping teachers and schools prepare for potential challenges are also discussed. The authors…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Media Selection, Reading Material Selection, Censorship
Salmerón, Ladislao; Vargas, Cristina; Delgado, Pablo; Baron, Naomi – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
Concerns about the negative effects of digitalization on students' reading comprehension, empirically backed by recent meta-analyses, question the efficacy of digital tools in the language arts classroom. By analyzing data from 4 and 8th grade US students from NAEP 2017, we aimed to test the generalization of the negative association between…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education