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  • More Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Doors

    A Period of Growth in African American Young Adult Literature (2001 to 2021)

    This is the third book in a three volume series celebrating and examining about the work of 11 of the most prominent African American authors since 2000. The eleven identified authors are Andrea Davis Pinkney, Coe Booth, Sheila P. Moses, Kwame Alexander, Kekla Magoon, Jason Reynolds, Varian Johnson, Renee Watson, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nnedi Okorafor, and Lamar Giles. These authors build on the work ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • How Young Adult Literature Gets Taught

    Perspectives, Ideologies, and Pedagogical Approaches for Instruction and Assessment

    Edited by T. Hunter Strickland, Stacy Graber, Steven Bickmore ...
    A manual for teaching Young Adult Literature, this textbook presents perspectives and methods on how to organize and teach literature in engaging and inclusive ways that meet specific educational and programmatic goals. Each chapter is written by an expert and offers a rich and nuanced approach to teaching YA Literature through a distinct lens. The effective and creative ways to construct a course ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Expanding the Foundation

    African American Authors of Young Adult Literature, 1980–2000

    Series series African American Authors of Young Adult Literature: A Three Volume Series
    This volume focuses on a group of authors who began writing in the late 1980s. This group consists of eight authors who expanded the foundation and built a critical reputation that garnered a variety of nominations and awards. These authors are: Rita Williams-Garcia, Jacqueline Woodson, Angela Johnson, Nikki Grimes, Sharon Draper, Christopher Paul Curtis, and Sharon G. Flake, and Jewel Parker ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Young Adult Literature and the Digital World

    Textual Engagement through Visual Literacy

    This book considers the practical intersection between digital media and young adult texts. In these books, teachers and teacher educators offer practical examples for engaging students with crafting critical responses to young adult literature through digital spaces. It examines how teachers can use these spaces to help students encounter, evaluate, and engage in the world in which they live. ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • When Loss Gets Personal

    Discussing Death through Literature in the Secondary ELA Classroom

    When Loss Gets Personal considers how secondary English language arts teachers and teacher educators can sensitively and thoughtfully teach pieces of literature in their classrooms in which death is a significant, if not central, aspect of the texts. Death is something that affects all people young and old, yet it is rarely discussed openly in classrooms despite its prevalence in texts read in ELA ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Toward a More Visual Literacy

    Shifting the Paradigm with Digital Tools and Young Adult Literature

    Technology and multimodal texts must be included as part of the literacies we teach in 21st century schools. Implementing multiple modes of literacy requires that teachers shift their focus toward multiple genres and modes of text. This shift to the visual requires that teachers consider how students read images in the classroom, address visual literacy, and engage students in constructing visual ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Moving Beyond Personal Loss to Societal Grieving

    Discussing Death's Social Impact through Literature in the Secondary ELA Classroom

    Moving Beyond Personal Loss to Societal Grieving considers how secondary English language arts teachers and teacher educators can sensitively and thoughtfully teach pieces of literature in their classrooms in which large-scale deaths are a significant, if not central, aspect of the texts. As mass shootings and violence against black and brown bodies increase, and issues such as AIDS, war, and ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Contending with Gun Violence in the English Language Classroom

    Edited by Shelly Shaffer, Gretchen Rumohr-Voskuil, Steven Bickmore ...
    Utilizing experiences and expertise from English educators, young adult literature authors, classroom teachers, and mental health professionals, this book considers how secondary English Language Arts can address school gun violence. Curated by field experts, contributions to this volume pay special attention to how a school’s culture and climate affect how teachers and students communicate around ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • On the Shoulders of Giants

    Celebrating African American Authors of Young Adult Literature

    Series series African American Authors of Young Adult Literature: A Three Volume Series
    This first book in a three volume series celebrates and examines the work of four African American authors of young adult literature. They are Virginia Hamilton, Julius Lester, Walter Dean Myers, and Mildred D. Taylor; they serve as the foundation of young adult literature and provide robust stories that center and illuminate African American youth. In addition, this volume also examines the role ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Naming What We Know, Classroom Edition

    Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies

    Edited by Linda Adler-Kassner, Elizabeth Wardle ...
    Naming What We Know, Classroom Edition examines the core principles of knowledge in the discipline of writing studies, using the lens of “threshold concepts”—concepts that are critical for epistemological participation in a discipline. This edition focuses on the working definitions of thirty-seven threshold concepts that run throughout the research, teaching, assessment, and public work in ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Researching Writing

    An Introduction to Research Methods

    by Joyce Kinkead ...
    Researching Writing is an accessible, informative textbook that teaches undergraduates how to conduct ethical, authentic research in writing studies. The book introduces students to the research approaches used most often and offers a course framework for professors creating or teaching research courses themselves.Author Joyce Kinkead lays out the research process, including finding and defining ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Teaching Students to Read Like Detectives

    Comprehending, Analyzing and Discussing Text

    by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey ...
    Series series Essentials for Principals
    Prompt students to become the sophisticated readers, writers, and thinkers they need to be to achieve higher learning. The authors explore the important relationship between text, learner, and learning. With an array of methods and assignments to establish critical literacy in a discussion-based and reflective classroom, you’ll encourage students to find meaning and cultivate thinking from even ... Read more

    $28.99 USD