Language Arts category: 28677 books
Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students
The Study of Language Arts in Four Major Plays
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
This is a teacher’s resource book tailor-made for EFL teachers who want to bring Shakespeare into their classes. It includes forty innovative lesson plans with ready-to-use worksheets, hands-on games and student-oriented activities that help EFL learners achieve higher levels of English proficiency...
Creative Communities
Art Works in Economic Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Urban and regional planners, elected officials, and other decisionmakers are increasingly focused on what makes places livable. Access to the arts inevitably appears high on that list, but knowledge about how culture and the arts can act as a tool of economic development is sadly lacking. This important...
by Campbell B. Titchener
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Reviewing the Arts is written for those media writers assigned to review an artistic event or performance, providing the tools for a journalist to write informed and enlightened reviews of the arts. This useful text guides writers through the steps for producing an acceptable review of fine and performing...
Promoting Language and STEAM as Human Rights in Education
Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
This book argues that integrating artistic contributions – with an emphasis on culture and language – can make Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects more accessible, and therefore promote creativity and innovation in teaching and learning at all levels of education....
Teaching to Exceed the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards
A Critical Inquiry Approach for 6-12 Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Timely, thoughtful, and comprehensive, this text directly supports pre-service and in-service teachers in developing curriculum and instruction that both addresses and exceeds the requirements of the Common Core State Standards. Adopting a critical inquiry approach, it demonstrates how the Standards’...
Mastering Grammar
The Sum of All Those Errors: Syntax, Usage, and Mechanics
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Are you a new teacher? Are you teaching out of your field of expertise? Are you a parent home schooling your child? Perhaps a parent hoping to improve your child's performance in school? Are you learning English as a second language? Or, are you changing jobs and needing a basic review of language...
Language and Linguistics in Context
Readings and Applications for Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Taking a sociocultural and educational approach, Language and Linguistics in Context: Readings and Applications for Teachers:
***introduces basic linguistic concepts and current perspectives on language acquisition;
*considers the role of linguistic change (especially in English) in...
Writing through the Visual and Virtual
Inscribing Language, Literature, and Culture in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Writing Through the Visual and Virtual: Inscribing Language, Literature, and Culture in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean interrogates conventional notions of writing. The contributors—whose disciplines include anthropology, art history, education, film, history, linguistics, literature, performance...
by Huang Hsin-Chien
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
☆☆☆ Author won the 2017 74th Venice Film Festival Award for the Best VR Experience ☆☆☆
A tragic breaking news led Huang Hsin-Chien to begin contemplating about digital civilization’s impacts on our world. He decided to become a new media artist and began using technology to tell...
Inspiring Dialogue
Talking to Learn in the English Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Inspiring Dialogue helps new English teachers make dialogic teaching practices a central part of their development as teachers, while also supporting veteran teachers who would like new ideas for inspiring talk in their classrooms. Chapter by chapter, the book follows novice teachers as they build...
To Light a Fire
20 Years with the InsideOut Literary Arts Project
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
The InsideOut Literary Arts Project (iO) began in 1995 in five Detroit high schools, with weekly classroom visits by a writer-in-residence, the publication of a literary journal for each school, and the mission of encouraging students to use poetry to “think broadly, create bravely, and share their...
Tracing the Origins
Studying the Lineage of Indiana University’s Martial Arts Program
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Tracing the Origins is a book in three parts. The first is a personal history of the author as it relates to martial arts. The second is an ethnographical study of the authors martial lineage and more importantly the ways in which lineage functions. Lastly are the transcriptions of the interviews the...
by Michael O'Toole
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
This collection brings together eighteen of the author’s original papers, previously published in a variety of academic journals and edited collections over the last three decades, on the process of interpretation in literature and the visual arts in one comprehensive volume. The volume highlights...
RTI in the Common Core Classroom
A Framework for Instruction and Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Schools and teachers have struggled to integrate Common Core State Standards (CCSS) into their local Response to Intervention (RTI) systems. This book offers an adaptable framework and practical tips to assist educational professionals charged with making this connection in their schools, districts,...