Street Lit: Teaching and Reading Fiction in Urban Schools By Andrew Ratner
New book out for teachers on urban fiction – In response to concerns about teacher retention, especially among teachers in their first to fourth year in the classroom, we offer future teachers a series of brief guides full of practical advice that they can refer to in both their student teaching and in their first [...]
Teacher’s Guide To The Bluford Series by Eliza A. Comodromos
The Teacher’s Guide to the Bluford Series offers a variety of lesson plans and handouts to promote reading as well as encourage reading, writing, and thinking skills. Ms. Comodromos also offers both brief and full summaries of ten of the books in the Bluford series.
Conscious Women Rock the Page: Using Hip-Hop Fiction to Incite Social Change by Marcella Runell Hall
Three award-winning activists and novelists-Black Artemis, E-Fierce, and J-Love, join social justice educator Marcella Runell Hall and a diverse team of seasoned educators to develop this collection of engaging and timely standards-referenced lesson plans for 6-12 and beyond. These lessons explore the tools of oppression that keep us divided such as violence, patriarchy and racism. [...]