Introduction: The Language of Learning Acknowledgments 1. Analyze 2. Argue 3. Compare/Contrast 4. Describe 5. Determine 6. Develop 7. Evaluate 8. Explain 9. Imagine 10. Integrate 11. Interpret 12. Organize 13. Summarize 14. Support 15. Transform Appendices I. The Other Words II. Academic Writing Moves III. Working With the Words Across Disciplines IV. Academic Moves: Etymology V. Teaching by Design Using Webb's Depth of Knowledge Model VI. Standards Correlation Chart (Texas, Florida, Indiana, and Virginia) VII. Anchor Charts VIII. Graphic Organizers Glossary Index
Turn today's youth into innovative, ambitious thinkers with fifteen critical reading, writing, and thinking processes. Jim and Barry distill each process into a potent concision that spans subject areas.
A longtime English teacher, Jim Burke is the author of more than 20 books and senior consultant for the Holt McDougal Literature program. Jim has received several awards, including the 2000 NCTE Exemplary English Leadership Award. In 2009, he created the English Companion Ning-the largest online community of English teachers in the world. More recently, Jim has served on the AP English Course and Exam Review Commission and the PARCC Consortium. Barry Gilmore was the Middle School Head and later the Assistant Head of School for Teaching and Learning at Hutchison School in Memphis, Tennessee. A National Board Certified Teacher, he taught English and social studies for nearly twenty years. Barry is the author of seven education books and the former president of the Tennessee Council of Teachers of English. Awards for his teaching have come from NCTE, TCTE, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Tennessee Holocaust Commission. He passed away in 2019 at the age of 50 and is dearly missed by his students, family, friends and fellow faculty.