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Books & Kits

Books in the CMC are classified in the Library of Congress Classification Scheme. All call numbers will start with "Curric" to indicate that it is an item in the CMC followed by one or two letters (such as those bulleted below) then numbers.

The main Library of Congress classification for teaching English/Language Arts is "P" which is "Language and Literature." You will also find many helpful teaching materials all though the "LB" Class/Subclass which is for education. Use the online catalog to look up your particular topic (grammar, writing, poetry, etc.).

Kits: Don't forget to check out all the kits we have as well. The kit room and poster collection are part of the Curriculum Materials Center, which means that the same call numbers or Library of Congress letters will apply. Use the online catalog to find the kits and posters or ask a librarian for help if you need it.

Examples of materials (click on the title for full description and call numbers):

The Six Academic Writing Assignments by Jim Burke
ISBN: 9780325050942
Publication Date: 2018-10-23
Drawing on his extensive review of academic writing assignments across the country, Jim identifies six major categories of writing assignments that help students become better writers, readers, and thinkers. For each assignment type, Jim invites us into his own practice. He shows how he composes the assignment, how he creates gateway activities to help prepare students, how he troubleshoots common problems, how he gives response, how he clarifies the criteria on which students will be judged.
Developing Content Area Literacy by Patricia A. Antonacci; Catherine M. O'Callaghan; Esther Berkowitz
ISBN: 9781483347646
Publication Date: 2014-11-12
Forty evidenced-based strategies for integrating literacy instruction into the content areas. Each of the 40 evidence-based strategies is organized around eight essential areas of literacy instruction: academic vocabulary, reading fluency, narrative text, informational text, media and digital literacies, informational writing, critical thinking, and independent learning. Each topic has five strategies from which to choose, giving teachers ample variety to meet the diverse needs of the classroom.
Dream Wakers by Ruth Culham
ISBN: 9781625311115
Publication Date: 2016-09-07
Ruth Culham focuses her love of children's literature--and her decades of work developing the traits of writing--on books that celebrate Latino life and culture. She provides a wide variety of ideas to teach writing using some of the richest and most beautiful children's books available. Dream Wakers gives you: * An annotated list of more than 120 books with do-it-today lesson ideas for teaching the traits of writing--Ideas, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, and Conventions. More than half of the books listed are bilingual or offer English and/or Spanish editions.

Journals

Looking for lessons and activities that have already been tried and tweaked? Teachers have published articles detailing the lessons and units that have worked well for them. AND you can get them for free through the library instead of paying for them online (where there is no peer-review process before they are published).

Great starting points: Some resources that work well for the English/Language Arts classroom are:

Websites

International Literacy Association (ILA)
NCTE Intellectual Freedom Center "NCTE is proud to offer advice, helpful documents, and other support to teachers faced with challenges to texts (e.g. literary works, films and videos, drama productions), to student writing, or to teaching methods used in their classrooms and schools."
ReadWriteThink