Winner of the 2021 Association for Writing Across the Curriculum/WAC Clearinghouse award for Best WAC MonographA 2008 survey of Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) programs found that nearly half of those identified in a 1987 survey no longer existed twenty years later, pointing to a need for an approach to WAC administration that leads to programs that persist over time.
Susanne Rubenstein shows how to focus on voice in the teaching of writing to help students take ownership of their work, enjoy what theyre writing, and produce writing that shows depth of thought and originality of expression.
In Just Theory, David Downing offers an alternative history of critical theory in the context of the birth and transformation of the Western philosophical tradition.
In this sequel to English Studies: An Introduction to the Discipline(s), editor Bruce McComiskey and contributors from a range of disciplines propose seven principles to reimagine English studies for increased relevance in an increasingly diverse and globalized world.
In Using Film to Unlock Textual Literacy: A Teachers Guide, Robert Bryant Crisp explores strategies for using film study and filmmaking to help students engage in entirely new ways with both print and digital texts.
Grounded in NCTE's position statements "e;The Students' Right to Read"e; and "e;NCTE Beliefs about the Students' Right to Write,"e; this book focuses on high school English language arts classes, drawing from the work of seven teachers from across the country to illustrate how advocating for students' rights to read and write can be revolutionary work.
From synesthetic poems to questioning poems to the ghazal, Lightning Paths: 75 Poetry Writing Exercises has something fun or fascinating for every student and teacher as they explore the possibilities of poetry writing.
Winner of the 2024 Best Book Award from the Council of Writing Program AdministratorsAn expansive look at the discipline of writing studies, with a focus on serving and supporting first-year writing students and instructors at open access institutions.
Making Middle School is the story of eighth-grade English teacher Steve Fulton and science teacher Tiffany Greens explorations of the intersections between critical literacy and science through maker spaces alongside their students.
Already Readers and Writers: Honoring Students' Rights to Read and Write in the Middle Grade Classroom is meant to help all middle school educators encourage their students to build literate lives both within the classroom and well beyond it.
Through a mix of history, theory, and story, Anna Plemons explores the fate of the Arts in Corrections (AIC) program at New Folsom Prison in California in order to study prison education in general as well as the disciplinary goals of rhetoric and composition classrooms.
Rob and Amanda Montgomery provide practical guidance and activities for K-12 teachers to get students out of the classroom and writing in real-world settings.
Salt of the Earth is an autoethnography and cultural rhetorics case study that examines white supremacy in the authors hometown of Grand Saline, Texas, a community long marred by its racist culture.
Rhetorics of Overcoming addresses the in/accessibility of writing classroom and writing center practices for disabled and nondisabled student writers, exploring how rhetorics of overcomingthe idea that disabled students must overcome their disabilities in order to be successfulmanifest in writing studies scholarship and practices.
In this third book in the Continuing the Journey series, Ken Lindblom and Leila Christenbury explore teaching English language, speaking, and listening.
A deep dive into the rich resources available for teaching Shakespeares plays, Bring on the Bard is for every high school teacherearly career to veteranlooking for new, hands-on activities to draw students of all ability levels into the work and world of Shakespeare.
What Works in Writing Instruction offers the best of what is currently known about effective writing instruction to help teachers help middle and high school students develop as writers.
The Lifespan Development of Writing presents the results of a four-year project to synthesize the research on writing development at different ages from multiple, cross-disciplinary perspectives, including psychological, linguistic, sociocultural, and curricular.
Reframing the Relational examines how writing specialists and faculty in other disciplines communicate with each other in face-to-face conversations about teaching writing.
Ted Kesler, with a community of grade school teachers and students, demonstrates how students creative responses lead to deep comprehension of diverse texts and ultimately help them to develop their literate identities.
During a time of increased book banning and censoring, of scrutiny of the word critical, andeven calls for surveillance of K12 teachers, the burgeoning field of critical media literacy is moreimportant than ever.
In Growing Writers, veteran teacher educator Anne Elrod Whitney explores how the principles defined in NCTEs Professional Knowledge for the Teaching of Writing position statement can support high school writers and teachers of writing through knowledge and a conscious search for meaning in our writing activities.
A reflective and practical guide for secondary school teachers on using innovative technologies in the classroom to support multimodal literacy development.
Named one of the 20 Best New Rhetoric Books to Read in 2021 by BookAuthorityWinner of the 2021 Vision Award from the Coalition for Community WritingHumanities scholar Aja Y.
How might writing instructors dedicated to community-writing or service-learning courses take into account and even mobilize the lived experiences of all their students?
In Nonfiction Writers Dig Deep, some of todays most celebrated writers for children share essays that describe a critical part of the informational writing process that is often left out of classroom instruction.
Drawing on both the production aspects of theater and the generative learning elements of drama, Theater, Drama, and Reading provides language arts teachers the tools and resources they need to help students transform text from print to interaction and deeper understanding.
In an era when education can extend far beyond traditional classrooms, this volume explores how young people engage with civic life and shape their futures through creative, critical, and collective action.
The authors show how English teachers can think and plan using a restorative justice lens to address issues of student disconnection and alienation; adult and youth well-being in schools; and inequity and racial justice through writing, reading, speaking, and action.
This collection explores decolonial shifts in composition and rhetoric informed by strategies for potentially decolonizing language and literacy practices, writing and rhetorical instruction, and research practices and methods.
Walking in Shakespeares Shoesproposes and explores a practical, historical, and culturally-relevant approach to teaching Shakespeare, situating the plays and sonnets in a tumultuous early modern world.
Changing Seasons: A Language Arts Curriculum for Healthy Aging is a language-based, interdisciplinary program that increases interaction and communication skills among older adults.
Changing Seasons: A Language Arts Curriculum for Healthy Aging is a language-based, interdisciplinary program that increases interaction and communication skills among older adults.
Winner of the 2015 CCCC Outstanding Book AwardAs our field of composition studies invites students to compose with new media and multimedia, we need to ask about other possibilities for communication, representation, and making knowledgeincluding possibilities that may exceed those of the letter, the text based, the composed.
