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Katie Sluiter – English Journal, 2024
The author's eighth-grade ELA curriculum is rich with opportunities for students to bear witness to a variety of experiences. Besides the Holocaust unit, they read "Ghost Boys" by Jewell Parker Rhodes (2018) while exploring police brutality and segregation; "The Giver" by Lois Lowry (1993) while investigating government…
Descriptors: Jews, Death, War, European History
Keisha McIntyre-McCullough – English Journal, 2020
Overall, the author wanted to teach using culturally responsive approaches. The ELA teacher can fuel social justice teaching. In this article, the author discusses how their personal biases affected their classroom instruction and how they shifted their educational philosophy to consider the needs and interests of their students. In US education,…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Advanced Placement, Social Justice, Course Content
Laurel Taylor – English Journal, 2016
This article discusses one teacher's efforts to give their students a mentor text for a persuasive, research-based writing project. The author's shift from assigning predominantly fiction to focusing more on nonfiction came as a result of their efforts to help their students move from students' current writing style -- that of a five-paragraph…
Descriptors: Reading Assignments, Nonfiction, Mentors, Books
Barry Gilmore – English Journal, 2017
The Bechdel test, the author's student Marley explained, is named for the US graphic novelist and cartoonist Alison Bechdel. To pass the test, a work of fiction must contain at least one scene in which two or more women (preferably named characters) discuss something other than a male. Students who read from the canon of works regularly encounter…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, Language Arts, Reading Teachers, Adolescent Literature
Dana Huff – English Journal, 2017
According to the author, as our abilities to combine image and text become more sophisticated and ubiquitous, digital storytelling is a powerful means for sharing those stories. Digital storytelling is a perfect way to remix stories. To present American literature as relevant to students' lives, the author rewrote their curriculum using backwards…
Descriptors: United States Literature, Curriculum Development, Relevance (Education), Story Telling
Amanda Haertling Thein; Mark A. Sulzer; Renita Schmidt – English Journal, 2013
What does democracy look like in the teaching of literature? Selecting texts that authentically and democratically engage students in the knotty questions of contemporary life is no small task, especially where young adult (YA) literature is concerned. This article critiques didactic YA literature grounded in a developmental stage model of…
Descriptors: Democracy, Adolescent Literature, Reading Material Selection, Learner Engagement
Crisp, Thomas; Knezek, Suzanne M. – English Journal, 2010
While LGBTQ people may no longer need be considered the "invisible minority," LGBTQ books are often taken to be positive or affirmative based on their mere inclusion of gay people as characters. The authors believe the catalog of LGBTQ texts must continue to increase in both quantity and quality and that teachers must explicitly engage students in…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Adolescent Literature, Homosexuality, Sexual Identity
Letcher, Mark, Ed. – English Journal, 2010
Of all the material in the English language arts curricula, poetry seems to cause the most consternation among teachers. For a number of teachers, and many students, poetry continues to be a difficult topic to teach and learn. In this article, the author focuses on the ways that young adult literature can help teachers expose their students to…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Textbooks, Young Adults, Teaching Methods
Martinez, Louis – English Journal, 2010
The nation's focus on the literacy skills of students--especially boys--has produced many notions of reform. School districts reorganized and changed curricula to meet the needs of struggling readers and writers. In New York City, where this author was teaching, "Balanced Literacy" (a reading and writing workshop) had been implemented in…
Descriptors: High School Students, Program Effectiveness, Surveys, Questionnaires
Bates, Larry – English Journal, 2008
Larry Bates argues for vocabulary instruction that emphasizes useful, high-frequency words rather than lists of rarely used terms. He suggests resources for finding frequency ratings for words and for determining appropriately challenging words for students. (Contains 3 figures and 3 notes.)
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, English Instruction, Teaching Methods, Word Lists

Barth, Rodney J. – English Journal, 1974
Presents a list of resources for teachers and librarians who wish to acquaint themselves with adolescent literature, adolescent reading interests, and approaches to teaching literature to adolescents. (TO)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliographies, Library Material Selection

Carlsen, G. Robert – English Journal, 1984
Because of the short life expectancy of recent books for adolescents, the author recommends examining the field in terms of its history and also calls for learning more about teenage books in general and teaching criteria for judging works. (CRH)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Bibliographies, Literature Appreciation, Novels

LeBlanc, Robert – English Journal, 1980
Adolescent or young adult novels can be paired with classic novels with similar themes to help ease the student transition from self-selected to teacher-assigned literature. (Three examples of the pairing technique are offered.) (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, English Instruction, Literature Appreciation, Novels

Egan, Margaret; O'Shea, Catherine – English Journal, 1979
Describes teaching techniques for using the multitext approach to English to motivate high school students. (DD)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Secondary Education, Student Motivation, Supplementary Reading Materials

Davis, James E.; Smalley, Alison – English Journal, 1993
Claims that the novel "Strange Attractors" by William Sleator proves to be an effective and engaging reading selection for middle school readers. Suggests methods for using the novel in the classroom, and samples student response to the book. (HB)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Literature Appreciation, Middle Schools, Reading Instruction