Print Resources:
"You Gotta
Be the Book" - Jeffrey
D. Wilhelm
This book provides great insight into
teaching literarture in the classroom. It provides the reader with
many great ideas on creating activities that are both fun and engaging
for the students. Wilhelm's anecdotes alone are worth buying this
book. His constant journal keeping allows the reader to see into
his mind as struggles with his students and has epiphanies that enlighten
both him and his students.
Explorations:
Introductory Activities for Literature and Composition, 7-12
- Peter Smagorinsky, Tom McCaan, Stephen Kern
This short booklet, published by they
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills and the National
Council of Teachers of English in 1987 is still as pertinent today as it
was when it came out 15 years ago. This booklet provides the teacher
with invaluable instruction on forming and performing meaningful prereading
activities in the secondary language arts classroom.
Expressions:
Multiple Intelligences in teh English Class
- Peter Smagorinsky
This booklet, published by the same
as the above booklet in 1991, is just as helpful. In it, Smagorinsky
takes the teacher through the process of creating activities that address
all of the ways in which students learn.
In the Middle
- Nancie Atwell
Nancie Atwell's book on implementing
the writing and reading workshop models in the classroom is inspirational.
Of course, we cannot all go off and start our own school as she has, but
her stories and ideas could provide a basis for any teacher wanting to
implement workshops into her/his classroom.
A Community
of Writers - Steven Zemmelman and Harvey Daniels
This text is focused on creating a
real writing atmosphere in the secondary classroom. Zemmelman and
Daniels remind teachers of what we often forget: students should want to
write for the same reasons that we should want to write, not because somebody
else tells us to.
Hyperlearning:
Where Projects, Inquiry, and Technology Meet - Jeffrey D. Wilhelm and
Paul D. Friedemann, with Julie Erickson
This text provides the reader with
a great illustration of how to actually integrate technology into the classroom
in ways that enhance the students' learning. The primary method of
instruction described here is with either HyperStudio or HyperCard, but
I believe that these ideas could easily be just as effectively used with
MS Powerpoint as well.
Human Resources:
If you have any questions for me regarding
any activities presented here on this website or, if you just want to banter
about English Education, I would love to hear from you. My email
address is andersom@student.gvsu.edu