language arts

Pictures and easy-to-follow text help students write interesting and effective expository paragraphs about NativeAmerican art and culture, with an overview of each step in the paragraph-writing process as well as activities, charts, and vocabulary exercises. Includes audio, videos, activities, weblinks, slideshows, transparencies, maps, quizzes, and supplementary resources.

Readings, activities, and writing prompts help students in grade nine learn about the use of language.

Discover ways of brainstorming ideas for a comic book story, how to outline a plot using a three-act organizational structure, how to incorporate dialogue and descriptions, and how to write clear and detailed instructions for an artist to draw the accompanying illustrations.

Contains one hundred reproducible graphic organizers that are designed to help develop the reading, writing, and content areas skills of fifth- through twelfth-grade students and promote active learning.

Provides study tools for preparing to take the English reading and writing portion of the ACT, including full-length assessment and practice tests with answers, drills, exercises, test-taking strategies, practice questions, and subject reviews.

Describes ways that teachers work with students to navigate the constantly changing world of technology, explains what it means to read, write, view, listen, and communicate in the twenty-first century, and offers examples of students and teachers successfully integrating technology to enrich literacy learning.

A collection of nineteen essays that discusses best practices in literacy instruction, covering such topics as early literacy, struggling readers, English language learners, motivation, phonological awareness, fluency, and more.

"Provides strategies and tips for school leaders to integrate the CCSS for English language arts in their school's instruction, curriculum, assessment, and intervention practices"--Back cover.