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NCTE titles are perfect for your summer reading list

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Dear Katharine LaBanca, As the school year ends, you're probably thinking ahead to your summer reading plans. These NCTE titles are filled with fun, creative, and innovative ideas and lessons -- the perfect addition to your summer reading list! Humor Writing Bruce Goebel offers more than 150 activities you can use to help students develop writing skills in voice, word choice, style, and organization while exploring a variety of genres. More » Talking in Class Thomas M. McCann, Larry R. Johannessen, Elizabeth Kahn, and Joseph M. Flanagan guide readers in developing skills that promote and facilitate authentic discussion in the classroom. More » Wordplaygrounds John S. 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. More » Middle Ground Sheryl Finkle and Tamara Lilly review principles of cross-cultural pedagogy and offer multiple activities for studying selected texts from and about the Middle East. More » Teaching YA Lit through Differentiated Instruction Authors Susan L. Groenke and Lisa Scherff show that YA lit is for all students, and they offer suggestions for incorporating it into the high school curriculum. More» Building Literacy Connections with Graphic Novels Edited by James Bucky Carter, this collection of essays demonstrates how to pair graphic novels with classic literature in ways that enrich students' understanding of both. More » Catching Tigers in Red Weather Teacher-poet Judith Rowe Michaels describes how she refocused her ninth-grade English course to help students explore writing as an art form. More » Reading Shakespeare Film First Mary Ellen Dakin asserts that we need to read Shakespeare in triplicate—as the stuff of transformative literature, theater, and film. More » The Power of Picture Books Featuring descriptions and activities for fifty exceptional titles, Mary Jo Fresch and Peggy Harkins offer a wealth of ideas for harnessing the power of picture books to improve reading and writing in the content areas. More » Engaging American Novels This collection, edited by Joseph O. Milner and Carol A. Pope, focuses on ten frequently taught American novels, both classic and contemporary, that can help promote student engagement. More » Visit us on:

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