Middle/Secondary Methods
General
 "But Will It Work With Real Students?" Scenarios for Teaching Secondary English Language Arts
Janet Alsup, Jonathan Bush
Pedagogical narratives written by secondary teachers and thoughtful responses to these narratives by experienced teachers and teacher educators form the heart of this text. 189 pp. 2003. Grades 7–12. ISBN 0-8141-0389-8.
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 Supporting Beginning English Teachers: Research and Implications for Teacher Induction
Thomas M. McCann, Larry R. Johannessen, Bernard P. Ricca
Results of a study of beginning and veteran English teachers to determine why new teachers leave within the first few years of teaching and how to retain new teachers. 214 pp. 2005. Grades 6–12. ISBN 0-8141-0269-7.
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Literature
 Teaching Reading in High School English Classes
Bonnie O. Ericson
This book presents a collection of essays that offer numerous practical teaching ideas for helping students increase their vocabulary and comprehension as well as learn to love the medium of books. 144 pp. 2001. Grades 7–12. ISBN 0-8141-5186-8.
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 Wordplaygrounds: Reading, Writing, and Performing Poetry in the English Classroom
John S. O'Connor
O'Connor offers new approaches to teaching poetry in middle and high school with more than 25 writing activities that can constitute an entire course or work as individual lessons. 155 pp. 2004. Grades 7–12. ISBN 0-8141-5819-6.
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 Literature & Lives: A Response-Based, Cultural Studies Approach to Teaching English
Allen Carey-Webb
Telling stories from lively secondary and college English classrooms, Literature and Lives explores the new possibilities for teaching and learning generated by bringing together reader-response and cultural-studies approaches. 219 pp. 2001. Grades 9–College. ISBN 0-8141-2964-1.
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 Literary Terms: A Practical Glossary
Brian Moon
Literary Terms: A Practical Glossary provides up-to-date definitions, drawing on recent developments in literary theory and emphasizing the role of reading practices in the reproduction of literary meanings. The NCTE Chalkface Series. 177 pp. 1999. Grades 9–12. ISBN 0-8141-3008-9.
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 Effective Literacy Instruction: Building Successful Reading and Writing Programs
Judith A. Langer
This book offers a programmatic vision, a set of principles, and real-life examples to guide educators who wish to inform their practice with research-based knowledge in order to best help their students become more highly literate. 197 pp. 2002. Grades 6–12. ISBN 0-8141-1294-3.
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Writing
 Getting the Knack: 20 Poetry Writing Exercises
Stephen Dunning, William Stafford
Dunning and Stafford, both widely known poets and educators, offer this delightful manual of exercises for beginning poets. 203 pp. 1992. Grades 6–12. ISBN 0-8141-1848-8.
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 A Teacher's Introduction to African American English: What a Writing Teacher Should Know
Teresa M. Redd, Karen Schuster Webb
Concise summary of the major schools of thought about African American English and how it may influence the teaching and learning of writing. 161 pp. 2005. Grades 11–College. ISBN 0-8141-5007-1.
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Grammar
 Grammar Alive! A Guide for Teachers
Brock Haussamen, Amy Benjamin, Martha Kolln, Rebecca S. Wheeler
NCTE’s Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar provides this much-needed resource for K–college teachers who wonder what to do about grammar—how to teach it, how to apply it, how to learn what they themselves were never taught. 121 pp. 2003. Grades K–College. ISBN 0-8141-1872-0.
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Media Literacy
 Reading in the Dark: Using Film as a Tool in the English Classroom
John Golden
This lively, practical guide makes direct links between film and literary study by addressing reading strategies (e.g., predicting, responding, questioning, and storyboarding) and key aspects of textual analysis. 175 pp. 2001. Grades 9-12. ISBN 0-8141-3872-1.
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