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Expecting students to jump right into a rigorous literature discussion is not always realistic. Students need scaffolding so that they will be more engaged and motivated to read the text and think about it on a deeper level. This book shows English language arts teachers a very effective way to scaffold—by tapping into students’ interest in pop culture. You’ll learn how to use your students’ ability to analyze pop culture and transfer that into helping them analyze and connect to a text.Special Features:Tools you can use immediately, such as discussion prompts, rubrics, and planning sheetsExamples of real student literature discussions using pop cultureReflection questions to help you apply the book’s ideas to your own classroomConnections to the Common Core State Standards for reading, speaking, and listeningThroughout the book, you’ll discover practical ways that pop culture and classic texts can indeed coexist in your classroom. As your students bridge their academic and social lives, they’ll become more insightful about great literature--and the world around them.

Expecting students to jump right into a rigorous literature discussion is not always realistic. Students need scaffolding so that they will be more engaged and motivated to read the text and think about it on a deeper level. This book shows English language arts teachers a very effective way to scaffold—by tapping into students’ interest in pop culture. You’ll learn how to use your students’ ability to analyze pop culture and transfer that into helping them analyze and connect to a text.Special Features:Tools you can use immediately, such as discussion prompts, rubrics, and planning sheetsExamples of real student literature discussions using pop cultureReflection questions to help you apply the book’s ideas to your own classroomConnections to the Common Core State Standards for reading, speaking, and listeningThroughout the book, you’ll discover practical ways that pop culture and classic texts can indeed coexist in your classroom. As your students bridge their academic and social lives, they’ll become more insightful about great literature--and the world around them.

This book provides a roadmap for teaching with graphic novels as an effective and engaging approach to advancing reading comprehension for English Learners in secondary schools. Accessibly synthesizing and presenting existing graphic novel research, the authors walk through how to use graphic novels as a teaching tool to improve student motivation and key reading skills, increase their reading proficiency levels, and bolster their vocabulary. The authors provide curricular ideas for teaching multilingual, gifted, and striving readers, along with methods for developing critical literacy and multimodal comprehension. Applying a universal design approach and including examples, current graphic novel recommendations, and pedagogical strategies, this book is essential reading for pre-service teachers in TESOL and literacy education.

This book provides a roadmap for teaching with graphic novels as an effective and engaging approach to advancing reading comprehension for English Learners in secondary schools. Accessibly synthesizing and presenting existing graphic novel research, the authors walk through how to use graphic novels as a teaching tool to improve student motivation and key reading skills, increase their reading proficiency levels, and bolster their vocabulary. The authors provide curricular ideas for teaching multilingual, gifted, and striving readers, along with methods for developing critical literacy and multimodal comprehension. Applying a universal design approach and including examples, current graphic novel recommendations, and pedagogical strategies, this book is essential reading for pre-service teachers in TESOL and literacy education.

Picture This! Leveraging Award-Winning Picture Books as Primary Sources in Secondary Social Studies shows how teachers can use picture books to teach secondary school students about social studies topics in American society.Using Caldecott Award-winning books as primary sources, each chapter interprets 1–4 picture books to offer insights into how the U.S. has grappled with social and political issues and crises across time. This book demonstrates how to create classroom analysis of picture books as primary source documents, spurring conversations about the states of social justice in the U.S. With contributions from in-service secondary education teachers and university instructors, each chapter includes lesson plans and ideas, classroom objectives, example assessments for classroom use, and step-by-step illustrations of how the lessons can be replicated easily by teachers.Packed with useful tools for use in the classroom, this book will be useful reading for in-service social studies teachers working in middle and high schools. It will also be beneficial reading for Social Studies Education and Civic Education courses.