The English Coach's Instructional Playbook: Classroom Strategies Informed by Neuroscience, Athletics, and Psychology

nAccess Reading and Writing Plays that enable all students to achieve. n n nn nAthletic coaches know how to design practice to produce top performance. n nWe can do the same in the English classroom.n n nn nWith The English Coach's Instructional Playbook, discover how to teach studentsn n nn n- to interact with the details of a story beyond mere understanding of the plotn n- to develop their own perceptive reflections in discussion of the literary text n n- to transform their plot-driven sentences into interpretive analysisn n- to organize their ideas into coherent paragraphs and essaysn n nn nWith the Playbook, turn your classroom into a space of deliberate movement where students experience the plays in action!n n nn n- Roll the Grammar Dice to master new sentence structures n n- Play musical chairs through the pages of a storyn n- Interrogate Sydney Carton, Daisy Buchanan, and Achilles in the Literary News Conferencen n- Compete for intellectual glory in the Tournament of Scholarsn n- Discover the pulse of the parts of speech with Human Sentencesn n- Chart a course for students' arguments with graphic organizersn n nn nFinally a Playbook that merges the wisdom of athletics, science, and psychology to design clear instruction in reading and writing.n n nn n nn