TY - BOOK AU - Bomer,Randy TI - Building adolescent literacy in today's English classrooms SN - 9780325013947 (alk. paper) AV - LB 1631 .B72 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - Portsmouth, NH PB - Heinemann KW - Language arts (Secondary) KW - English language KW - Composition and exercises KW - Study and teaching (Secondary) N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; English: what to teach -- Appreciating existing literacies -- Teaching reading and writing lives -- Environments for building readers -- Building and inhabiting the world of the text -- Teaching toward interpretive reading -- Teaching thinking devices -- Teaching toward great conversations -- Writing that supports readers' meaning making -- Writers' notebooks: tools for thinking -- What is there to teach about writing to think? -- Pointing students toward audiences -- Empirical inquiry into qualities of good writing -- Teaching toward participation in digital culture -- Making more of grammar: studying language like linguists -- Working toward tests without insulting students' intelligence -- Planning a year ER -