Teaching Literature - Elaine Showalter

Teaching Literature is an indispensable guidebook for all teachers of English and American literature in higher education. Drawing on 40 years of international teaching experience, author Elaine Showalter inspires instructors to make their classroom practice as intellectually exciting as their research. Softcover, 166 pp. $32.95.

Drama of Color - Johnny Saldana

Johnny Saldana's Drama of Color is a unique resource for using drama to enhance children's ethnic literacy by provoking personal insights into the multiethnic world in which they live. Multiethnic folklore becomes a springboard for examining different ethnic perspectives and world views and dispelling stereotypes along the way. Softcover, 169 pp. $36.95.

History in the Spotlight - Sharon M. Fennessey

This educational resource brings new life to the study of social studies by using the tools of creative drama and theatre in order to enhance communication skills. Fennessey provides readers with numerous strategies that she has proven effective in her own teaching practice. In all, this guide will show teachers how to use the performing arts to create an exciting classroom environment in which students will be enthusiastic to learn. Softcover, 172 pp. $36.95.

The Arts Inspected - Jim Rose

The Arts Inspected is an informative Ofsted guide to good teaching in the arts. Designed to help all those involved in arts education in Primary and Secondary schools, this book describes and comments on work where successful teaching has resulted in good progress in art, dance, drama and music. Softcover, $44.95.

Grammar Wars II: How To Integrate Improvisation & Language Arts - By Tom Ready

134 new games that will help students of all ages learn a wide range of language arts through improvisation. Softcover, $25.95.

The Mozart Effect For Children: Awakening Your Child's Mind, Health, and Creativity with Music - Don Campbell

Learn how classical music can bring out the best in your child's mind, body, and spirit. Don Campbell explains how music is the perfect tool to improve children's language, movement, and social skills at home, school, and play. Softcover, $22.00.

Theatre Praxis: Teaching Drama Through Practice - Edited by Christopher McCullough

When the first drama department in a British university was founded almost 50 years ago, the debate regarding the academic nature of Drama-in-Education began. How did drama fit into school curriculum? Was it academic in the conventional sense? Where did practical theatre-making come in? This collection of essays addresses the problem, with a wide range of arguements and responses. However, the authors all have one thing in common: they reject the idea that learning is passive. Drama must be taught through practice. Softcover, $33.95.

Literacy Alive: Drama Projects for Literacy Learning - Edited by Judith Ackroyd

Brings together the work of various instructors, from David Booth to John Miller. Each section describes the way in which these educators have used drama to promote a range of literacy skills, from work with a classical poem to the enactment of a science fiction story. Each section includes lesson plans, as well as guidance for developing further classroom projects. Large-format softcover, $25.95 P/J Lesson Plans/Assessment (2000).

Literacy Techniques for Building Successful Readers and Writers - Edited by David Booth

A comprehensive handbook for teaching reading and writing which collates proven techniques and strategies -- from literature circles and phonics insttruction to invented spelling and reader response. This overview of 100 major approaches to encouraging literacy will help teachers reflect on their own teaching styles as they explore innovative approaches to learning. Each strategy includes a brief discussion of the issues and then focuses on ready-to-use ideas for implementing in any classroom. Topics addressed include: Alphabet Books, Buddy Learning, Journals, Literature Circles, Phonics, Thematic Units, Shared Reading, Wall Charts, etc. Large-format softcover, $18.95 P/J/I Theory/Activities /Assessment (1996).

Lessons for the Living: Drama and the Integrated Classroom - by Jim Clark, Warwick Dobson, Tony Goode & Jonothan Neelands

This book is divided into three parts: the first part provides a theoretical overview, reviewing the history of curriculum integration in Canada. Part two, the major section, contains six detailed drama structures, each of which is intended to provide a dynamic starting point for a project. The dramas deal with themes and issues such as the environment, racism, growing up etc. Part three offers some practical guidelines on planning for drama, allowing teachers to follow up on the work provided in section two by developing their own drama frameworks, tailored to the needs of their own students. $41.95 I Theory/Lesson Plans (1997).

Shake, Rattle, & Learn: Classroom-Tested Ideas that Use Movement for Active Learning - by Janet Miller Grant

The stimulating activities in this resource address the relationship between movement and learning in virtually every subject area -- language arts, mathematics, music, social studies etc. Chapters feature simple individual and partner explorations as well as more complex group activities, including dance. Students develop skills in co-operation and collaboration as they explore important concepts in rhythmic, spatial and language expression. $14.95 P/J Activities (1995).

Drama for Learning: Dorothy Heathcote's Mantle of the Expert Approach to Education by Dorothy Heathcote & Gavin Bolton

The book begins, in the introduction, with Bolton's attempt to use Heathcote's method, and Dorothy's subsequent criticisms. It continues in Chapter one with a dialogue between the two about the essence of the Mantle of the Expert approach. This is followed by a brief attempt to lay down the educational rationale of the work. The remaining chapters give a variety of examples of planning for and using a Mantle of the Expert approach, examples drawn from Dorothy's past teaching mainly in kindergartens, elementary and junior high schools in North America. The book shows how drama can be used a s an impetus for productive learning across the curriculum. $43.95 P/J/I Theory/Examples (1995).

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