This book offers middle and high school teachers useful suggestions
and strategies for cultivating literacy in their classrooms,
focusing primarily on the key skills of reading and writing. It
discusses the nature of standards-based education and emphasizes
the power and importance of good literature in the ELA curriculum.
Included are detailed approaches to reading and writing with simple
strategies for teaching close reading of complex text, as well as
textual evidence and elaboration. A variety of sample performance
tasks are included for commonly taught works of American and world
literature as well as a variety of strategies to strengthen
students reading and writing skills needed for success in college
and the workplace. This book is a practical handbook for teachers,
who can easily find appropriate strategies to use in their
classrooms and begin implementing them right away. It is a useful
collection of tips with suggestions and instructions for
implementing effective and engaging literacy strategies and
performance tasks.
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