Literacy That Works: Career-Connected Literacy for Today's English Classrooms

Today’s students are craving learning experiences that feel relevant and transferable, while their English teachers are working harder than ever to meet their students’ needs and interests.Literacy That Works offers a semester's worth of career-connected literacy lessons that teachers and students can start applying on Day 1. A workbook and how-to book combined, Literacy That Works offers rationale, lesson plans, rubrics, and more than 45 embedded QR codes that enable teachers to tailor content to suit their needs and interests. Through this book, 33-year veteran English teacher, Beth York, offers a series of career and Common Core-connected lessons that advance students’ literacy learning, including:Applying principles of communication theory to effectively engage and motivate othersAccessing, analyzing and evaluating industry-relevant texts to enrich understanding of current trends, controversies or innovations in a future field.Delivering bad news or calming an upset client while preserving important relationshipsExploring career interests and developing the beginnings of a professional networkLearning the conventions of effective business writing and speaking including form, content and grammar.Creating important workplace documents such as emails, memos, incident reports, presentation slides and more.Embracing the nuances of today’s job-search process including the role of corporate culture, tips for designing resumes and cover letters and strategies for interviewing well.Literacy That Works brings the worlds of school and work together so students immediately see the purpose and applicability of their literacy learning.Literacy That Works offers teachers engaging, practical lessons, relevant rubrics and customizable documents to support career-connected literacy learning within their classrooms. Read more