Teaching middle school language arts
Subtitle: incorporating twenty-first century literacies
By: Anna J. Small Roseboro.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Education
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781607096306; 9781607096313; 9781607095811
Subjects: Language arts (Middle school); Creative writing (Middle school); Educational technology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Networking socially at the start of a school year; title: Unpacking the story and understanding the genre; title: Exploring traditional and contemporary grammars; title: Discussing and writing short stories: where story meets genre; title: Checking out a 20th century novel; title: Teaching classical fiction: where the ghosts of the past speak today; title: Taking T.I.M.E. to teach poetry; title: Versing life together; title: Opening the past imaginatively: teaching historical fiction; title: Playing it right: reading, performing, and writing drama; title: Celebrating names: a unit about community and identity; title: Afterword: congratulations and bon voyage!; title: Appendix: teacher resources.