Inspired Learners, Active Minds - A Guide for the English Classroom

Informationen zum Autor By Dennis J. Kafalas Klappentext This guide offers a step-by-step, year-long teaching plan that has practical and easy-to-use best practice strategies for secondary English teachers. The book lays out an instructional model that improves literacy for every single student. With this guide, teachers will develop reading fluency, improve essay and research paper writing, and purposefully integrate literature into their classrooms by using student-centered lessons and examples. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Why Use Reading and Writing Workshop? Chapter 2 Suspending Disbelief Chapter 3 First Step: Choice and Ownership of Reading and Writing Chapter 4 The Writer's Notebook Chapter 5 The Writing Workshop Chapter 6 Grading Chapter 7 Bringing Literature into the Classroom Chapter 8 Performance Based Exams Chapter 9 Writing the Research Paper Chapter 10 Portfolios, Assessment and Metacognition Chapter 11 Starting the School Year in the Workshop Model

Product details

• Authors: Dennis J. Kafalas
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.04.2008
• EAN: 9781578867240
• ISBN: 978-1-57886-724-0
• No. of pages: 152
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; EDUCATION / Classroom Management, Secondary Schools, Study & learning skills: general, Teaching skills & techniques, Teaching of a specific subject, STUDY AIDS / Study & Test-Taking Skills, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Reading & Phonics, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Secondary