Best Selling Books by Jane Wagner

The text of the Broadway play, captures the last twenty years of American culture

To the guys on the block, J.T. is the kid who stole the radio out of the red convertible before they could get to it. His neighbor, Mrs. Morris, declares him a first-class nuisance. His mother is bewildered -- "He''s just gone bad, that''s all.... Stealin'' and lyin'' and I don''t know what all." But all the sensitivity, responsibility, and care of which ten-year-old J.T. Gamble is capable emerges when he finds an old, one-eyed, badly hurt alley cat. J.T. takes on a new dimension as he lavishes all the love he is unable to express to people around him on the battered cat he has found in the junk-filled empty lot.

We''re confident that this new edition of Betty Jane Wagner''s seminal work will be welcomed by drama educators throughout the English-speaking world. Heathcote''s work has been profoundly influential in that world. Until the publication in 1976 of Dorothy Heathcote: Drama as a Learning Medium, however, Heathcote''s techniques - the pedagogy of drama - lacked full explanation. Wagner''s book gives us just that: a close-up detailing of this gifted, dynamic teacher in a variety of classroom settings, along with analyses of Heathcote''s remarkable improvisations with young people. Indeed, much of Betty Jane Wagner''s book can fairly be described as drama within a drama. It''s an engrossing work, for we listen and watch as Heathcote elicits drama of their own making from students across grade levels and disciplines. Wagner''s goal is to share with teachers how they, using Heathcote''s methods, can generate significant learning experiences.

This is the fourth edition of James Moffett''s seminal text, first published in 1968, which set forth the rationale and practices for the kind of individualized, interactive, integrative language learning environment that only today is coming into its own. It proposed whole language, collaborative learning, active learning, writing workshops, the process approach, student empowerment, portfolio assessment, and the substitution of children''s literature for basal readers many years before these cornerstones of enlightened English language arts teaching became fashionable. The book is the centerpiece of life work devoted to curricular innovation and constitutes a truly original approach to the nature of discourse. It is cross-referenced to an equally original collection of anthologies that illustrate with both professional and student writing the reading, writing, talking, dramatizing repertories it stakes out--and to Moffett''s other works that build on and extend this one. From the second edition on, the book has profited from the input of Betty Jane Wagner, a master teacher of teachers. Student-centered Language Art, K-12 is arguably the most comprehensive, practically detailed, and original textbook/resource book on English education. It covers theory and practice, elementary and secondary, drama, oral-language activities, and initial literacy as well as general reading and writing. Furthermore, verbal learning is placed in a social context and in the context of nonverbal media and arts that compete with and complement language. The authors have made this edition more compact by shifting some material to a new edition of Active Voice and by abridging matters that no longer need to bedealt with at length because the profession is catching up with the book. They have recast some matters to tie in with current vocabulary and understanding, and some practices have been updated to utilize current technology. In this fourth edition, the book is shorter in length but broader in perspective as it continues to break new ground to integrate language arts with other learning.

"Does classroom drama actually teach anything?" In this book, the best studies in both the qualitative and quantitative research paradigms are presented.

Presents various challenging situations English teachers will most likely face, and provides questions to consider and thoughts on each issue. Covers such areas as lessons that flop, the paper load, curriculum, second-language learners, abused students, and attacks on the teacher''s competence.

A collection of the wit and wisdom of six-year-old Edith Ann (as created by Lily Tomlin) offers her humorous observations on modern life, childhood, grown-ups, and other important topics. Reprint.

Easy-to-use diagrams on how: to laminate activity cards and games, simple lettering, preserving throw-away materials, bookbinding, new uses for the overhead and opaque projectors, makeing slides, filmstrips, tapes and films.

Includes exercises that review the basics of grammar and practice proofreading, report writing, sentence structure and word usage.

Includes exercises that review the basics of grammar and practice proofreading, report writing, sentence structure and word usage.

Includes exercises that review the basics of grammar and practice proofreading, report writing and sentence structure.

Encourages creativity and builds confidence by making writing fun! Seventy-two four-part lessons strengthen writing skills by focusing on parts of speech, word usage, sentence structure, punctuation and proofreading. Each level includes a Writer''s Handbook at the end of the book that offers tips. Based on the highly respected McGraw-Hill Companies'' language arts textbooks. Full-color illustrations. Consumable. (Available now)

Includes exercises that teach the basics of grammar and writing.

Covers curriculum and methods of language arts and reading for both elementary and secondary school as well as teaching English in basic college courses.

''... lists an array of meanings alphabetically that lead you to words you may have momentarily forgotten ...'' - Jacket.

Pupil''s workbook containing punctuation exercises.

This is a young adult novel about the racism that swirled around Japanese-Americans at the time of their relocation during World War II. The protagonist is an 11-year-old girl, Diana, whose parents take in a boy from the Amache Relocation Camp in Colorado to live with the family so he can attend the local high school. This brings trouble for Diana, who, with her adventurous friend Snuffy, is quite capable of creating her own trouble as well. The narrative introduces readers to the feel of everyday life in a beet-farming town in 1944, including attitudes toward Mexican migrant workers. Events overseas in both France and the Pacific have a profound impact on the home front. Snuffy''s high-school-dropout brother''s hatred of all Japanese is intensified when his own brother is killed by Japanese soldiers in the Pacific. The purpose of this account is to show how damaging it can be when national prejudice is turned against a people just because their racial characteristics resemble those of others who threaten their safety. One hopes that present-day readers will recognize that prejudice against all Muslims of Arabic descent is just as misguided as was the prejudice against Japanese-Americans during World War II.

No other tools will round out your elementary students'' language arts skills like Language Roundup. This program is indispensable for students and teachers alike in supporting key areas of oral and written expression, correct usage, grammar, mechanics, and writing skills most important for grades 2-6.

No other tools will "round out" your elementary students'' language arts skills like Language Roundup. This program is indispensable for students and teachers alike in supporting key areas of oral and written expression, correct usage, grammar, mechanics, and writing skills most important for grades 2-6.