[LIT] Ignite Student Intellect and Imagination in LA

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Have any of you language arts/English teachers on this list used any of the ideas in “Ignite Student Intellect and Imagination in Language Arts” by Sandra Schurr and Kathy LaMorte (NMSA, 2007)?  I’d sure appreciate your remarks on how the ideas worked for you.
 
I’ll be teaching an 8th grade English class next year after a year without an English class, and I spent some time today looking over this book, which I bought at last year’s NMSA conference.
 
I admire the way Schurr and LaMorte demystified Bloom’s taxonomy in part I of this little book—they also neatly tied their suggested activities at each of Bloom’s levels to the specific standards developed by NCTE and IRA in over 90 “Bloom Sheets.” Parts 2, “Imaginative Assessment Options and Real-Life Applications,” and 3, More Instructional Tools and Techniques, are chock full of good ideas, too.  “Ten Smart Ways to Use Bloom’s Taxonomy in the Language Arts Classroom” is worth the price of the book.  A seasoned English teacher might not see many new ideas here, but it’s the way the ideas are organized that make this little book seem so useful, especially since so many principals are insisting on seeing plan books arranged ala Bloom’s and the state standards.

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