Christenbury, Leila, “On Becoming an Urban English Teacher”,
The English Journal
, November, 1979, p.31-33. A good article for first year teachers to read
during
their initial year to get some perspective on what they’ve experienced so far.
Decker, Sunny,
An Empty Spoon
, Perennial Library, Harper and Row Publishers, Inc., New York, NY: 1969. This is the story of a white woman just out of teaching college who starts to teach in an all black high school in Philadelphia. It is one of the truest accounts of teaching in the city I’ve read in a while. All of us have met students exactly like the ones she describes.
Fader, Daniel N. Ph.D. and McNeil, Elton B., Ph.D.,
Hooked on Books
, Berkeley Publishing Corp., New York, NY: 1966. Even though this book was printed in 1966, I think most teachers would agree, that the Hooked on Books program still has many elements which teachers should be using to get students to read more.
Fader, Daniel,
The New Hooked on Books
, Berkeley Publishing Corp., Mr. Fader continues his Hooked on Books program. This book is not exclusively for junior high and high school teachers. He includes books and ideas for elementary teachers and parents of young children to use to get their children hooked on books early in life. Very readable as the original
Hooked on Books
is.
NCTE Publications,
High-Interest-Easy Reading for Junior and
Senior High School Students
. This is the new edition of the NCTE’s booklist. It features 432 novels concisely annotated. Arranged in subject categories, it is easy for teachers to select fiction for hard-to-please readers.
Schur, Jane Brodsky, English Journal Workshop Column, “Helping Students to Visualize What They Read”,
The English Journal
, February, 1980, p. 64-65. This column gives 16 ideas for helping students visualize what they are reading. For example, asking the students to draw or paint a picture of the wallpaper described by William Carlos Williams in “On Gay Wallpaper” or mapping out a real place as in Johnny Tremain. Ms. Schur has some very interesting ideas for giving students a variety of experiences while reading.
Gross, Beatrice,
Teaching Under Pressure
, Goodyear Publishing Co., 1979. This is a collection of statements and teaching ideas. Topics covered include avoiding “burnout”, student behavior problems, and teaching basics in humane ways.
Small, Robert, Jr. “The Young Adult Novel in the Composition Program” Part 1,
The English Journal
, September 1979 and Part 2 October 1979. Gives some good ideas for composition writing related to young adult novels.