English Books

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31. Grammar Survival

    A Teacher's Toolkit, 2nd Edition

    By Geoff Barton

    Focusing on what you need to know in the classroom, Grammar Survival provides you with the essential knowledge and tools you’ll need to teach grammar effectively. This second edition has been updated and restructured to reflect the revised framework for English, and ten new sections have been added...

    Published January 3rd 2010 by Routledge
32. English Teaching in the Secondary School

    Linking Theory and Practice, 3rd Edition

    By Mike Fleming, David Stevens

    Now in an updated third edition, English Teaching in the Secondary School is a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of teaching English. Presenting an informed view of current educational policy, the authors provide advice to help students creatively and independently interpret government...

    Published November 10th 2009 by Routledge
33. Academic Language/Literacy Strategies for Adolescents

    A "How-To" Manual for Educators

    By Debra L. Cook Hirai, Irene Borrego, Emilio Garza, Carl Kloock

    Fast-paced, practical, and innovative, this text for pre-service and in-service teachers features clear, easily accessible lessons and professional development activities to improve the delivery of academic language/literacy education across the content areas in junior/middle school and high school...

    Published October 27th 2009 by Routledge
34. Learning to Teach English in the Secondary School

    A Companion to School Experience, 3rd Edition

    Edited by Jon Davison, Jane Dowson

    Series: Learning to Teach Subjects in the Secondary School Series

    How do you approach teaching English in the modern classroom? What is expected of a would-be English teacher? This bestselling textbook combines theory and practice to present a broad introduction to the opportunities and challenges of teaching English in secondary school classrooms. Each...

    Published May 10th 2009 by Routledge
35. Generation 1.5 in College Composition

    Teaching Academic Writing to U.S.-Educated Learners of ESL

    Edited by Mark Roberge, Meryl Siegal, Linda Harklau

    '… A well-organized volume with a strong emphasis on pedagogy.' – Trudy Smoke, Hunter College/City University of New York, USA 'Generation 1.5 is the most interesting topic of concern in ESL today, yet publications are few and far between.... The editors clearly know what they’re doing…. They...

    Published February 11th 2009 by Routledge
36. Teaching Reading Shakespeare

    By John Haddon

    Teaching Reading Shakespeare is warmly and clearly communicated, and gives ownership of ideas and activities to teachers by open and explicit discussion. John Haddon creates a strong sense of community with teachers, raising many significant and difficult issues, and performing a...

    Published January 21st 2009 by Routledge
37. Toward a Literacy of Promise

    Joining the African American Struggle

    Edited by Linda A. Spears-Bunton, Rebecca Powell

    Series: Language, Culture, and Teaching Series

    "[This book] gives us strategies for bringing life back to school; it allows us to think creatively about connecting instruction to the lives of children who have not been well-served; it helps us learn to value the gifts with words our children of color bring; and it gives us hope for educating a...

    Published September 7th 2008 by Routledge
38. Critical Literacy and Urban Youth

    Pedagogies of Access, Dissent, and Liberation

    By Ernest Morrell

    Series: Language, Culture, and Teaching Series

    Critical Literacy and Urban Youth offers an interrogation of critical theory developed from the author’s work with young people in classrooms, neighborhoods, and institutions of power. Through cases, an articulated process, and a theory of literacy education and social change, Morrell extends the...

    Published December 9th 2007 by Routledge
39. Teaching Authentic Language Arts in a Test-Driven Era

    By Arthur T. Costigan

    Series: Transforming Teaching

    Most pre-service education students are enthusiastic about the progressive, constructivist, and student-centered theory and practice advocated in many teacher education programs and by the National Council of Teachers of English. Yet in actual day-to-day practice, teachers often have trouble...

    Published October 30th 2007 by Routledge
40. Active Assessment in English

    Thinking Learning and Assessment In English

    By Brenda Keogh, John Dabell, Stuart Naylor

    Everybody seems to be talking about Assessment for Learning. This book shows you how to do it. The thinking behind the highly influential ‘Assessment for Learning’ approach is translated into usable and practical strategies for all those teaching literacy in primary and secondary classrooms. The...

    Published July 11th 2007 by David Fulton Publishers