A road less traveled : critical literacy and language learning in the classroom, 1964-1996 /

A Road Less Traveled: Critical Literacy and Language Learning in the Classroom, 1964-1996 takes us through what Robert W. Blake calls the "jaunty journey" of the English/English Language Arts classroom from its linguistic and literature foundations, to emphases on close reading techniques...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Blake, Robert W. (Robert William), 1930- (Author), Blake, Brett Elizabeth (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Peter Lang, [2018]
Series:Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 520.
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Table of Contents:
  • Behavioral objectives and the teaching of English (1971)
  • I see you, I hear you, you're OK: humanizing the English classroom (1974)
  • The new English: hot stuff or cool, man, cool? (1970)
  • Linguistics and the teacher (1965)
  • Once upon a morpheme: an NDEA Institute in Applied Linguistics for the elementary school teacher (1967)
  • I see what you mean, but not by words: extraverbal communication (1973)
  • The composing process and its relationship to the teaching of writing (1980)
  • Teaching ideas: back-to-basics: how to talk to a writer, or forward to fundamentals in teaching writing (1976)
  • Composing for the left hand: writing activities for the intermediate grades (1978)
  • Composing as the curriculum: the Albion writing project (1979)
  • Setting up an effective writing program in the schools (1981)
  • Assessing English and Language Arts teachers' attitudes toward writers and writing (1976)
  • Poets on poetry: writing and the reconstruction of reality (1990)
  • Poets on poetry: one way to write a poem (1991)
  • Poets on poetry: the morality of poetry (1992)
  • Responding to poetry: high school students read poetry (1986)
  • Using the personal response to become a learning community: a model for secondary students to learn to read short fiction (1991)
  • Reader response: toward an evolving model for teaching literature in the elementary grades (1996)
  • The play's the thing for middle school students (1989)
  • Converting narrative into drama: using the composing process to integrate the Language Arts (1982)
  • Starting off a non-native student in a college basic skills classroom (1982)
  • A new look at basic skills writing instruction: a teacher workshop for basic skills writing in the secondary schools (1983)
  • How can we help our teen-agers? (1966)
  • Is teacher education governable? (1973).