Pump it up : literacy activities for the classroom / edited by Joanne Kilgour Dowdy and Yang Gao.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- Section I: Exploring the Scientific World (Science) -- 1. Promoting Creativity through Writing in Science -- 2. Creating Characters through the Use of Vocabulary Words -- 3. Key Steps to a Scientific Method: An Exploration through Drama -- Section II: Becoming an Artist (Arts) -- 4. Analyze This! -- 5. We Wear the Mask -- 6. Finding Your Poem: Found Poetry as a Way of Engaging Literature -- 7. Media Activism in Secondary Classrooms through Art and Drama -- Section III: Appreciating the Beauty of Languages (Literacy/Language Arts) -- 8. Using Word Association to Uncover Hidden Beliefs -- 9. Using Photographs to Inspire Voice -- 10. Poetry in the Art Room: Creating Blackout Poems Using Preexisting Text -- 11. Speech Video Lesson -- 12. Maga(Zine) Moguls: Students as Engaged, Motivated Readers and Writers -- Section IV: Embodying Social Justice (Social Studies/Politics/History) -- 13. Drawing in a Community College Classroom? Using Picture Books and Sketch-to-Stretch with Adult Learners -- 14. What Does It Feel Like to Be Excluded? -- 15. “Were You Afraid of the Bomb?” Constructing Family Narratives of Lived Cold War Experiences -- 16. “I” Witness News: Using the Intergroup Contact Theory to Create Counter-Stereotypes -- Section V: Developing a Healthy Mind and Body (Health/Physical Education) -- 17. Including Language Awareness Activities in Physical Education -- 18. Exploring Social Identities and Social Inequalities in Physical Education -- Section VI: Playing with Numbers (Mathematics) -- 19. Writing to Learn Mathematics through Formulating Problems -- 20. Going beyond Numbers to Complicate the Given Information: Elementary Children’s Mathematical Writing -- 21. How Will Electronic Journaling Influence Children’s Mathematical Reasoning and Communication? -- Section VII: Teaching in a Multicultural World (ESL/EFL/ELL) -- 22. A Game of Copy Change: Using Reading Logs to Develop Students’ Reading and Writing Skills -- 23. Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Cultural Scaffolding in Literacy Education: The Ethnobiography -- 24. This Is Me: Using “I” Statements and Narrative Writing to Introduce Students to Each Other -- 25. A Picture Is Worth a Million Words: A 21st Century Learning Experience -- 26. Using ESL Fiction Texts to Increase Motivation and Comprehension -- 27. Children’s Books + Extensive Reading = Improved Reading Skills and Enjoyment for Reading and Writing -- About the Contributors.

"The book contributes to improving teaching and learning in a few ways: first, it provides in-service teachers with step-by-step, ready-to-use strategies that facilitate their students’ comprehension and use of content area reading material; second, it aims to help pre-service teachers learn to implement hands-on lessons for their content area; third, apart from strategies offered to the content area teachers in the mainstream, the book also provides teachers of English language learners with strategies that address the literacy needs of their diverse students." --Publisher's website.