Recent Publications

Teaching Writing in the Inclusive Classroom: Strategies and Skills for all Students, grades 6-12. Jossey Bass, 2006.

Teaching Writing in the Inclusive Classroom offers teachers in grades 6–12 everything they need to help all students develop basic writing skills, relate writing to real-life tasks, and explore writing as a creative and enjoyable practice.  Filled with fifty engaging activities, this hands-on resource is an important and valuable tool that can supplement any teacher's approach to writing instruction. This book offers strategies based on the proven TIP Writing Process that is designed to individualize the writing process by focusing on the specific needs of each student within the classroom.

Teaching the Classics in the Inclusive Classroom: Reader Response Activities to Engage All Learners. Jossey Bass, (In Press).

The strategies and lessons in this book—which combine current practices in teaching literature, adolescent reading, and multiple intelligences—have been proven to work with all levels of readers, from average general education pupils to exceptional students who are mainstreamed in a regular education classroom. Filled with high-interest and engaging activities that work with a wide variety of learners, this book provides teachers with an important and valuable addition to their strategies for teaching literature.

Scruggs, M. & McKnight, K. (2007) The Second City Guide to Improvisation in the Classroom, Grades K-8. Jossey Bass, (In Press).
Improvisation as it is practiced at The Second City is a set of tools.  Improvisation builds skills in following directions, listening, focusing, oral communication, and teamwork–skills that are necessary for learning in all content areas.  Since the inception of the Improvisation in the Classroom Program at Second City, teachers have discovered exciting ways to include improvisation in the teaching of kids in language arts, social studies, science, and mathematics.  This book provides the educational groundwork for using improvisation for teaching and learning in the classroom, an explanation of improvisation exercises, and teacher developed lessons that incorporate improvisation.