Literature and life: making connections in the classroom

The collaborating and creating connection with literature. Making connections through literature / Charles J. Nolan, Jr.

Developing the social conscience through literature / Peter Smagorinsky

Connecting with literature : activities for The cay and The bedspread / Vicki L. Olson

Using journals and small groups to explore literature / JoAnna Stephens Mink

Poetry to engage the person / Nancy Gorrell

"Stopping by woods on a snowy evening" : a classroom experiment in literary response / Mary Alice Delia

Making sense of poetry through constructing, collaborating, and imitating / Jeff Golub

Literature on the screen : film adaptations in the classroom / Peter S. Gardner

The dinner party : how to breathe life into literature / Chella Courington Livingston

Portraying and interpreting literature through art / Jill Hamilton

The Sophocles connection / Mary Cobb

Drama as a way into poetry / Elizabeth Komar.

(cont.) Moral dilemmas and Death of a salesman / Eva Kafka Barron and David N. Sosland

The reading and writing connection with literature. The reader's work : learning through enactment / Richard Jenseth

Ambiguous texts in teaching the reading of literature / Miriam B. Mandel

Students and literature : intimate friends / Maureen H.A. Morrissey

Engaging students with literature / Robin Auslander Grusko

A marriage of form and content : teaching Twelve angry men / Ken Hogarty

Using junior high readers' poetry preferences in the classroom / Karen Kutiper, Richard F. Abrahamson

Deconstructing the multiple-choice test / Thomas McKendy

Cowboys, cowgirls, and literary criticism / Anne Sherrill

Listening : an invitation to literacy / Wendy Rodgers Clark

Action books as story retelling prompts / Gerry Bohning

Writing poetry in response to literature / Penelope Bryant Turk

Style from the inside out / Patricia P. Kelly.

(cont.) Creating text : students connecting with literature / Leila Christenbury

Helping students discover their private texts / Leroy Perkins

An approach to critical writing : begin with contradictions / Janet Bean-Thompson.