Critical Reading Activities for the Works of Gary Paulsen
Critical Reading Activities for the Works of Gary Paulsen

Author: Bernice Golden

Publisher: Walch Publishing

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 9780825138539

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A collection of activities including reproducible pages, teacher notes, synopses, discussion questions, and comprehension assessments, designed to help students understand five works by author Gary Paulsen.

Tex
Tex

Author: S. E. Hinton

Publisher: Delacorte Press

Published: 2013-08-06

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0385375670

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From the best-selling author of The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton's Tex explores friendships, conflict, depression, self-destructive behavior, and truth and acceptance. This edition includes a new and exclusive Author's Note. Easygoing and reckless, Tex, likes everyone and everything, especially his horse, Negrito, and Johnny Collins' blue-eyed sister, Jamie. Life with his older brother, Mason, would be just about perfect if only he would stop complaining about Pop, who hasn't been home in five months. While Mason worries about paying the bills and getting a basketball scholarship--his ticket out of Oklahoma--Tex just seems to attract trouble. When everything seems to be falling apart, how can Tex find a way to keep things together?

Whole Novels for the Whole Class
Whole Novels for the Whole Class

Author: Ariel Sacks

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-10-21

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1118526503

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Work with students at all levels to help them read novels Whole Novels is a practical, field-tested guide to implementing a student-centered literature program that promotes critical thinking and literary understanding through the study of novels with middle school students. Rather than using novels simply to teach basic literacy skills and comprehension strategies, Whole Novels approaches literature as art. The book is fully aligned with the Common Core ELA Standards and offers tips for implementing whole novels in various contexts, including suggestions for teachers interested in trying out small steps in their classrooms first. Includes a powerful method for teaching literature, writing, and critical thinking to middle school students Shows how to use the Whole Novels approach in conjunction with other programs Includes video clips of the author using the techniques in her own classroom This resource will help teachers work with students of varying abilities in reading whole novels.

Teaching the Neglected "R"
Teaching the Neglected

Author: Thomas Newkirk

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13:

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A collection of essays in which leading scholars explore the new realities of writing instruction in the twenty-first century, discussing how new advances in technology have influenced the field and describing new strategies for connecting with learners at all levels.