Amy's most recent book for NCTE is Engaging Grammar: Practical Advice for Real Classrooms. Amy's workshops in grammar instruction show teachers how to use visuals, manipulatives, and patterns to capitalize on students' innate knowledge of how language works. Amy's workshop topics also include reading comprehension strategies for secondary classrooms and content area writing, based on her new book, But I'm Not A Reading Teacher. Amy's Writing in the Content Areas is considered a seminal resource in the field.
View Amy Benjamin's Resume/Vita, Publications and Workshops.
Level 6-12
- Writing in the content areas
- Reading information text
- Rhetorical grammar
- Reading in the content areas
- Grammar
Listen to Amy Benjamin as she discusses and shares with you first-hand what she views as the key to successful professional development.
Selected Staff Development and Conference Presentations
2008 NCTE, San Antonio, TX—"Grammar in the Heart of the Writing Process"
2007 NCTE, New York City—"Engaging Grammar: Practical Advice for Real Classrooms"
2006
NCTE, Nashville, TN—"Dynamic Grammar Instruction"
Hillcrest High School, Country Club Hills, IL—Differentiated Instruction
Newton Public Schools, MA—Writing in the Content Areas
2005
Little Rock Arkansas Schools—Differentiated Instruction
Butte School District, MT—Reading in the Content Areas
Red Bank Catholic High School, Red Bank, NJ—Writing in the Content Areas
2004
Oxnard, California—Reading in the Content Areas
Connecticut Writing Project, Fairfield, Connecticut—Grammar in the Writing Workshop
Lyons Township Public Schools, Lyons Township, Illinois—Differentiating Instruction for Assessments in World Language Classes
Allegan, Michigan—Reading in the Secondary Schools
Atlantic City High School—Writing in the Content Areas
2003
Northern Westchester/Putnam BOCES—Shakespeare on Your Feet
Bethel Schools, Bethel, Connecticut—Language Acquisition and Language Development: The Bethel Language Project