English and language arts education: Recent print books
This guide is for those interested in the teaching of English and language arts, both research and practice. See also guides to Reading instruction, Writing instruction, Literacy, and Second language learning.
Recent print books
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To read stuff you have to know stuff: helping students build and use prior knowledge by Kelly Gallagher
Publication Date: 2025In the age of click-and-go reading, why do students need to know information when they can just look things up? Bestselling author Kelly Gallagher argues that to think critically, it's imperative that we teach kids stuff. Lots of it. Why? Because students who know more are able to read more, and read better. -
Empowering youth to confront the climate crisis in English language arts by Allen Webb (Ed.); Richard Beach (Ed.); Jeff Share (Ed.); Michael E. Mann (Foreword)
Publication Date: 2025Discover how English teachers and their students confront the climate crisis using critical inquiry, focusing on justice, and taking action. Working in today's politically polarized environment, these teachers know first-hand about teaching and learning in communities that support and resist climate education. -
Action research in STEM and English language learning: an integrated approach for developing teacher researchers by Aria Razfar
Publication Date: 2022Responding to the linguistic and cultural diversity of the U.S. K-12 student population and an increasing emphasis on STEM, this book offers a model for professional development that engages teachers in transformative action research projects and explicitly links literacy to mathematics and science curriculum through sociocultural principles. -
The ESL/ELL teacher's survival guide: ready-to-use strategies, tools, & activities for teaching all levels by Larry Ferlazzo; Katie Hull Sypnieski
Publication Date: 2022The ESL/ELL Teacher's Survival Guide: Ready-to-Use Strategies, Tools, and Activities for Teaching English Language Learners of All Levels, 2nd Edition offers readers a comprehensive range of instructional strategies and educational resources for teaching English. -
Sustaining action research: a practical guide for institutional engagement by Anne Burns; Emily Edwards; Neville John Ellis
Publication Date: 2022This book is a practical guide for English language teachers and teacher educators seeking to carry out and promote teacher action research within their institutional context. Based on contemporary theory and a reflexive and social approach to teacher professional development and learning, it offers readers structured methodologies and concepts, wide-ranging hands-on activity sets, and focused suggestions for appropriate and sustainable ways to implement action research across an institution. -
Cultivating healing-centered ELA classrooms by Sakeena Everett
Publication Date: 2021It is imperative that K-College educators not only consider trauma-informed teaching, but also healing-centered teaching practices. As we think through ways to support the most harmed people in our teaching and learning communities, we will move closer to a more equitable and just healing-centered profession. -
Engage and empower: expanding the curriculum for justice and activism by Mary Amanda Stewart (Ed.); Christina Salazar (Ed.); Victor Antonio Lozada (Ed.); Christina Thomas (Ed.)
Publication Date: 2022This edited book provides ready-to-use engaging curriculum units for an integrated approach to teaching English language arts and U.S. history in grades 4-12. The purpose is to promote social justice and activism while building critical literacies students need in the 21st Century. -
Teaching disciplinary literacy in grades K-6: infusing content with reading, writing, and language by Sarah M. Lupo, Christine Hardigree, Emma S. Thacker, Amanda G. Sawyer, and Joi D. Merritt
Publication Date: 2022This text provides a comprehensive framework and practical strategies for infusing content-area instruction in math, social studies, and science into literacy instruction for grades K-6. Throughout ten clear thematic chapters, the authors introduce an innovative Content-Driven Integration (CDI) model and a roadmap to apply it in the classroom. -
From words to wisdom: supporting academic language use in preK-3rd grade by Erica M. Barnes; Jill F. Grifenhagen; David K. Dickinson; Susan B. Neuman (Foreword)
Publication Date: 2021This practical guide shows teachers how to introduce academic language to young children, with an emphasis on appreciating and leveraging linguistic diversity. New educational standards are asking students to master content-area concepts and increasingly complex texts in earlier grades. This practitioner-friendly text provides instructional materials, sample dialogs, and assessment tools to facilitate academic language use in PreK-3 classrooms. -
Multicultural curriculum transformation in literacy and language arts by Amanda VandeHei-Carter (Ed.); Nayelee Villanueva (Ed.); Christine Clark (Ed.); Jeannette Driscoll Alarcón; Benjamin Francisco; Dara Nix-Stevenson; Laura Shelton; Amy Tondreau; Laurie Rabinowitz; Vicki Sherbert; Eileen Montalvo Wertzberger; Ernestina Wiafe; Merida Lang; Molly Sherman; Rhianna Henry; Alexandra Porrata; Kristen R. Strom; Sharon Chang; Yaojia Qu; Socorro García-Alvarado; Alisun Thompson; Judith A. Scott; Tricia Gallagher-Geurtsen; Melody Andrews; Brittany Goldsby; Christine Beaudry
Publication Date: 2021This book focuses on multicultural curriculum transformation in literacy and language arts subject areas. The discussion of each area outlines critical considerations for multicultural curriculum transformation for the area by grade level and then by eight organizing tools, including content standards, relationships with and among students and their families, and evaluation of student learning and teaching effectiveness. -
Engaging grammar: practical advice for real classrooms by Amy BenjaminPublication Date: 2021Challenges the idea of "skill and drill" grammar by introducing an approach to grammar instruction that is grounded in linguistics and moves beyond fixing surface errors to teaching how grammar can be used as the building blocks of sentences to create meaning.
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Learning to teach English and the language arts: a Vygotskian perspective on beginning teachers' pedagogical concept development by Peter Smagorinsky
Publication Date: 2020Drawing together Smagorinsky's extensive research over a 20-year period, Learning to Teach English and the Language Arts explores how beginning teachers' pedagogical concepts are shaped by a variety of influences. Challenging popular thinking about the binary roles of teacher education programs and school-based experiences in the process of learning to teach, Smagorinsky illustrates, through case studies in the disciplines of English and the Language Arts, that teacher education programs and classroom/school contexts are not discrete contexts for learning about teaching, nor are each of these contexts unified in the messages they offer about teaching. -
Teaching writing by Lucy Calkins
Publication Date: 2020Teaching Writing is Lucy Calkins at her best-a distillation of the work that's placed Lucy and her colleagues at the forefront of the teaching of writing for over thirty years. This book promises to inspire teachers to teach with renewed passion and power and to invigorate the entire school day. -
In the pursuit of justice: students' rights to read and write in elementary school by Mariana Souto-Manning (Editor)Publication Date: 2020Provides vivid examples of how elementary school teachers make NCTE's position statements on students' rights to read, write, and use their own languages come alive in their diverse classroom settings.
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