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Professional Texts

Check out these professional texts, recommended by fellow members...

Adolescent Literacy: Turning Promise into Practice Edited by Kylene Beers, Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, Columbia University, Robert E. Probst, Florida International University, Linda Rief, Oyster River Middle School, New Hampshire 

Blending Genres, Altering Style  by Tom Romano

Classroom Publishing: A Practical Guide for Teachers  by Laurie King and Dennis Stovall

Holding On to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones: Six Literacy Principles Worth Fighting For by Tom Newkirk

Inside the Writer's-Reader's Notebook: A Workshop Essential by  Linda Rief

Misreading Masculinity: Boys, Literacy, and Popular Culture by Tom Newkirk

Testing Is Not Teaching: What Should Count in Education by Don Graves

 


Professional and Classroom Resources 

Here are links to resources discovered by members who surf! These links will expand and enhance your library of resources inside and outside of the classroom!  If you have a great link you'd like to share, please contact the NHCTE webmaster, Jill Pinard, via e-mail.

 

For the Classroom…  

  Poetry Links

Poetry Out Loud

 

Poems that GO 

 

Langston Hughes exhibit at America’s Library 

 

The American Academy of Poets

 

"New Hampshire Poets" section of The American Academy of Poets

 

"For Educators" section of The American Academy of Poets

 Nature Journaling and Thoreau Links 

The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods

 

The Thoreau Reader 

 

The Nature Journal as a Tool for Learning

Literature Links  

The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress  

 

Louisa May Alcott

 

The Edgar Allan Poe Museum

 

Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain 

 

The Frost Place, a museum and poetry center at Robert Frost's farm in Franconia, N.H.

Animation & Film Links

Animoto- very cool and very easy to use website which will have you and your students exploring the making of meaning when one combines images, text and music.

Professional Links… 

Independent Booksellers...

Cultural Arts...

National Council of Teachers of English

 

NCTE: Assumptions and Practices on the Teaching of English

 

NHEON  - New Hampshire Educators Online

 

NEATE- The New England Association of Teachers of English

 

The Plymouth Writing Project- the New Hampshire Chapter of the National Writing Project 

 

The Poetry Society of New Hampshire

 

The New Hampshire Writers' Project

 

American Library Association

 

2008 ALA Book Award Winners

 

The Frost Place in Franconia, N.H.: Conference on Poetry and Teaching

 

Northeast Cultural Cooperative

 

Bayswater Book Company - Center Harbor, NH

 

Gibson's Bookstore - Concord, NH

 

Water Street Bookstore - Exeter, NH

 

The Toadstool Bookshops-  Keene, Milford & Peterborough, NH

 

The Village Book Store - Littleton, NH

 

Official Website of Tomie dePaola - Morgan Hill Book Store- New London, NH

 

White Birch Books- North Conway, NH

 

MainStreet BookEnds of Warner- Warner, NH

The New Hampshire State Council on the Arts

 

The New Hampshire Humanities Council

 

The Arts Alliance of Northern New Hampshire