EJ Links for May 2008

		Links for May 2008 Issue

The following links are provided for the convenience of English Journal readers interested in the electronic resources mentioned in each issue. The links are taken directly from the articles in the journal and are listed in the order in which they appear. Please note: In following these links you will be leaving the English Journal Web site; English Journal and NCTE are not responsible for the information provided at these sites. Although every attempt is made to ensure accuracy at the time of publication, NCTE cannot guarantee that published electronic mail addresses and URLs are current. Please contact us at
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From the Editor

Louann Reid

Creating Intentional Communities to Support English Language Learners in the Classroom

Judith Rance-Roney

>Meeting the Literacy Development Needs of Adolescent English Language Learners through Content-Area Learning
>National Assessment of Educational Progress

Writing Steps: A Recursive and Individual Experience

Bonnie Mary Warne

>Alignment of Idaho State Standards with Idaho Standards Achievement Test (ISAT)

Uniting the Disparate: Connecting Best Practices and Educational Mandates

Pamela K. Coke

>Colorado Model Content Standards for Reading and Writing
>"NCTE Reform Recommendations from the National Council of Teachers of English"

Call for Proposals: NCTE Theory and Research into Practice (TRIP) Book Series

>detailed submission guidelines

Moving to the Center: Disorientation and Intention

Maja Wilson and Michael Niemczyk

>"Eight Grade English Language Arts Grade Level Content Expectations v.12.05"
>"Isis Speech"

Mandates and the Writing Curriculum: Creating a Place to Dwell

Sarah Irwin and Cyndi Knodle

>Hunter College Reading/Writing Center

Teaching beyond the Test: the Possibilty of Success

Kristin L. Main

>Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test
>Summary of Results and Strategies for Teachers: Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test, 2006–2007
>"Ontario Secondary School Literacy Course, Grade 12, Open (OLC4O)"

The Family Writing Project: Creating Space for Sustaining Teacher Identity

Marilyn McKinney, Saralyn Lasley, and Rosemary Holmes-Gull

>National Writing Project: Local Site Initiative Report
>"Parents Write Their Worlds: A Parent Involvement Program Bridging Urban Schools and Families"

Sharing Command of the Co-Teaching Ship: How to Play Nicely with Others

Emily Sims

>Power of Two
>NEA: 6 Steps to Successful Co-Teaching
>Co-Teaching Planning Form

"The Rose That Grew from Concrete": Postmodern Blackness and New English Education

David E. Kirkland

>"Using Hip-Hop in Schools: Are We Appreciating Culture or Raping Rap?"

Chatting with Letters: Developing Empathy and Critical Literacy through Writing Communities

Mary B. Nicolini

>"Critical Literacy"
>"Creating Dialogues: A Symposium on Civility and Civic Dialogue"

"Do you remember": Confronting Post-9/11 Censorship through Critical Questioning and Poetic Devices

Jeanine M. Staples

>Rev. of The Peaceable Classroom

Call for Manuscripts: Social Literacy and Classroom Communities

>http://www.englishjournal.colostate.edu/resources.htm#manuscripts

ATEG Conference, July 2008

>The Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar Conference

Overstandardization, or Killing the Process with the Process

Tiffany J. Hunt and Bud Hunt

>Colorado Model Content Standards for Reading and Writing
>National Education Technology Standards for Students: The Next Generation
>"Standards for the English Language Arts"
>"Talks: Sir Ken Robinson: Do Schools Kill Creativity?"

Learning Beyond the Classroom from ReadWriteThink

>Summer Activities: Learning Beyond the Classroom

Taking Ownership in Literacy: Native American Ninth Graders Respond

Linda Tabers-Kwak, Timothy U. Kaufman, and Steven Kimball

>Green Bay Press-Gazette
>Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning Language Arts Standards

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