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Bruce Goebel – English Journal, 2018
What if the literacy and social justice work educators are trying to do via literature is being foiled by its often tragic seriousness? What if the emotion work students are being asked to do when engaging with such literature is debilitating for some of them? One might argue that many students' reluctance to read and their lack of success at…
Descriptors: Humor, Literary Devices, Literacy Education, Literature Appreciation
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Michelle Ann Abate – English Journal, 2018
In this article, Michelle Ann Abate examines the typographical features of the comics and graphic novels frequently finding their way into English Language Arts (ELA) classrooms and challenges the viewpoint that they are secondary to prose-only texts, arguing instead that many comics can be seen as requiring more advanced levels of literacy…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Novels, Language Arts, English Instruction
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Dawan Coombs; Devery Bellingham – English Journal, 2015
This article explores three ways a teacher incorporated text sets into her seventh-grade classroom to foster authentic inquiry. Student reflections suggest this approach helped them cultivate questioning, researching, and cooperative learning skills that became lasting habits of inquiry and helped them succeed on core tests.
Descriptors: Grade 7, Authentic Learning, Inquiry, Skill Development
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Garland, Kathy – English Journal, 2012
Ms. Mayer, a recently retired English language arts teacher, frequently used strategies described in John Golden's book "Reading in the Dark: Using Film as a Tool in the English Classroom." In this book, Golden suggests that ELA teachers "reverse the order: use a film clip to practice the reading and analytical skills that we want our students to…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Popular Culture, Speech Communication, Language Arts
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Amanda Godley; Terry Monroe; Jaclyn Castma – English Journal, 2015
This piece describes how Pittsburgh Public Schools, an urban school district, strategically redesigned its AP English program and diversified student enrollment in AP English classes as part of its equity plan. The authors describe how one teacher expanded his instructional strategies to meet the needs of more linguistically, culturally, and…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Access to Education, Success, Advanced Placement Programs
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Page, Melissa A. – English Journal, 2012
The classroom dynamic has become a competition of whose information is more important: the quickly accessed and popular digital texts or the perhaps less popular print texts. Whether or not teachers or school systems sanction the reading or teaching of popular culture texts in the classroom, students are reading--are even bombarded with--messages…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Skills, Popular Culture, Layout (Publications)
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De Mers, Kathleen D. – English Journal, 2010
Words are the foundation of literacy. Words can express, in part, the joys, loves, triumphs, and sorrows of life. One person's thoughts, expressed through words, can powerfully influence and inspire audiences or readers and long outlive their author. But not everyone is enamored of words. For some students, words are a kind of torture. For them…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Language Skills, Language Impairments, Educational Technology
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Renino, Christopher – English Journal, 2009
Dan recently turned 13; Nick will soon be 12. Both boys are smart and fun; both are loving, write like angels, like to learn, and want friends; both are autistic and hope to learn to speak. They find it challenging to relate to and function in this world, and they work hard to improve their abilities to do so. Last fall, Nick and Dan became…
Descriptors: Drama, Writing Skills, Autism, Home Instruction
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Kennedy, Tammie M.; Menten, Tracey – English Journal, 2010
In this article, the authors share five practical teaching activities for introducing disability into the secondary English curriculum that also address NCTE/IRA objectives for the English language arts. They have used these lessons to help students better analyze the language/rhetoric of disability, understand how disability is represented in…
Descriptors: English Curriculum, Disabilities, Teaching Methods, Reading Skills
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DelliCarpini, Margo, Ed.; Adams, Susan R. – English Journal, 2009
When the author first started teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) students, she was incredibly naive about the second language acquisition process. One of the first moves she made was to look at the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) goals, and she began to think about the purposes and situations in which her…
Descriptors: Poetry, High School Students, English (Second Language), English Instruction
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Spangler, Susan – English Journal, 2009
Reading skills are vital to student success, and those skills could be practiced with Shakespeare "if students are taught reading skills in the classroom." The problem is that many teachers of English do not consider themselves reading specialists and do not teach reading skills to their students. Fred L. Hamel notes that teachers in a recent…
Descriptors: Classics (Literature), Reading Consultants, Reading, Specialists
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Kohn, Alfie – English Journal, 2010
The author suggests that it is impossible to motivate students. He said that in fact, it's not really possible to motivate anyone, except perhaps oneself. What a teacher "can" do--"all" a teacher can do--is work with students to create a classroom culture, a climate, a curriculum that will nourish and sustain the fundamental inclinations that…
Descriptors: Reading, Role, Classroom Environment, Teacher Effectiveness
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Michaels, Judy Rowe – English Journal, 2009
In this article, the author discusses how students create their arts projects by responding to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner." In creating their arts projects, students incorporate film, painting, performance, and other arts in their imaginative and innovative responses to Coleridge's classic work. The author discusses…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Visual Arts, Theater Arts, Poetry
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Martinez, Louis – English Journal, 2010
The nation's focus on the literacy skills of students--especially boys--has produced many notions of reform. School districts reorganized and changed curricula to meet the needs of struggling readers and writers. In New York City, where this author was teaching, "Balanced Literacy" (a reading and writing workshop) had been implemented in…
Descriptors: High School Students, Program Effectiveness, Surveys, Questionnaires
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Desmet, Christy – English Journal, 2009
YouTube, the video sharing website that allows viewers to upload video content ranging from cute dog tricks to rare rock videos, also supports a lively community devoted to the performance of Shakespeare and Shakespearean adaptations. YouTube is also a popular site for student producers of Shakespeare performances, parodies, and other artistic…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Computer Uses in Education, Teaching Methods, Video Technology
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