English Teacher's Great Books Activities Kit: 60 Ready-To-Use Activity Packets Featuring Classic, Popular, & Current Literature - Couverture souple

Muschla, Gary Robert

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ISBN 10 : 0876288549 ISBN 13 : 9780876288542

Editeur : Centre for Applied Research in Education, 1994

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English Teacher's Great Books: Activities Kit Contains practical management techniques and more than 180 reproducible student activities for teaching reading and writing skills through a selection of literature covering various genres, themes, and cultures. Full description

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This resource give English teachers practical management techniques and 60 ready–to–use activity packets containing over 180 reproducible student activities for teaching reading and writing skills through a variety of classic, popular, and current literature.

Each of these literature–based activity packets offers students the chance to learn language skills within the context of an entire story rather than in isolation, and is easily correlated with other subjects across the curriculum. Each also opens a new world of ideas and places to your students.

For easy use, the Kit is printed in a big 8–1/2" x 11" format that folds flat for photocopying of the student activity sheets and is organized into two sections:

Part I, Managing Your English Classes, identifies the elements of effective English classes and the role of the whole language teacher, and provides specific guidelines and tools for managing reading, writing, and evaluation.

Part II, Ready–To–Use Activities, presents reproducible activity packets for 60 different novels, including 20 each for grades 7–8, grades 9–10, and grades 11–12. Here are just a few of the works featured at each level:

• Grades 7–8: Call it Courage by Armstrong Sperry ... The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss ... A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Grades 9–10: A Separate Peace by John Knowles... I Never Promised You A Rose Garden by Johanna Greenberg ... Night by Elie Wiesel
• Grades 11–12: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne...The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros...Watership Down by Richard Adams

Each literature packet includes a brief synopsis of the story, ideas and concepts for the teacher to highlight, a reproducible writing assignment, reproducible questions for students to consider after reading, reproducible projects and activities relating to the novel and connections with other subject areas.

You′ll find these activity packets are completely flexible. They are suitable for whole–class, group, or individual learning. You may assign all of the questions or just some; you may form groups and assign each group a different project. You may even use them cooperatively with another content area teacher.

In the author′s words, "This resource provides you with an opportunity to teach English skills through exciting literature that covers various genres, themes, and cultures. You will be not only teaching the skills for effective reading and writing, but also helping your students to experience the world."

Biographie de l'auteur :

Gary Robert Muschla received his B.A. and M.A.T. degrees from Trenton State College in New Jersey. He teaches at Appleby School in Spotswood, New Jersey, where he has specialized in the teaching of reading and writing, conducted writing workshops for teachers and students, and edited magazines of students′ writing.
In addition to his 19 years as a classroom teacher, Mr. Muschla has been a successful freelance writer, editor, and ghostwriter. He is a member of the Authors Guild, the Authors League of America, the National Writers Club, and the Associated Business Writers of America.
Mr. Muschla has also authored three other resources for teachers: the Writing Workshop Activities Kit: Ready–to–Use Worksheets and Enrichment Lessons for Grades 4–9 (The Center for Applied Research in Education, 1989), The Writing Teacher′s Book of Lists (Prentice Hall, 1991), and the Writing Workshop Survival Kit (The Center for Applied Research in Education, 1993).

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Centre for Applied Research in Education
• Date d'édition: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0876288549
• ISBN 13: 9780876288542
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 308