Inquiry-based English instruction
Subtitle: engaging students in life and literature
By: Richard Beach & Jamie Myers ; foreword by Jerome C. Harste.
Contributors: Myers, Jamie.
Series: Language and literacy series; Language and literacy series (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
Subjects: Language arts (Secondary) -- United States; Language experience approach in education -- United States; Interdisciplinary approach in education -- United States
Description: Offers an alternative framework for middle and secondary school English instruction. The authors provide concrete strategies for engaging students in critical inquiry projects about the social worlds they inhabit or about those portrayed in literature and the media. Includes examples of students using various literacy tools (language, genres, narratives, signs, multimedia, and drama).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-198) and index.