LEARN NC

K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

Kimberly Bowen is the Secondary English Language Arts Conslutant for the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.

Resources created by Kimberly Bowen

Racing against catastrophe: a webquest for English I teachers
Students often have difficulty making connections between classic books and their contemporary lives. This Webquest puts you in the role of student to find learning strategies that scaffold the meaning-making process as your own students read.
Format: /lesson plan
By Kimberly Bowen and Shayne Goodrum.
Reading is for the boys (and girls)!
This WebQuest for teachers looks at the difficult issue of how to get — and keep — boys interested in reading. It guides you through the research, then looks at text selection and pedagogy and helps you find specific strategies for narrowing the adolescent "literacy gap."
Format: article
By Kimberly Bowen.
Teaching the features of effective writing
By organizing your instruction around focus, organization, support and elaboration, style, and conventions, you can help students become more effective writers and make your own job easier.
Format: article
By Kimberly Bowen and Kathleen Cali.
Working together to get writing right
Philosophical and practical reasons to support writing across the curriculum in high schools. A WebQuest for teachers.
Format: article
By Kimberly Bowen.