Play and Gamification in Middle and High School English

Are you looking for ways to bring gamification and play-based teaching and learning into your English Language Arts instruction?This is a practical, user-friendly resource for middle and high school English teachers interested in bringing principles of play into their writing, literature, and grammar instruction. Playful pedagogy is instruction that centers interactivity, collaboration, active learning, and meaningful applications of knowledge. It seeks to engage students by providing them opportunities to work together, think creatively, and work with academic content in active and student-centered ways. While playful pedagogy can make a difference in all subject areas, it can be especially meaningful and important to the work done in the middle and high school English classroom through enhancing authenticity, engagement, community, and deep thinking. With this resource, you can quickly implement play and gamification into your classes, as each chapter shares key suggestions for putting play-base strategies into action in the classroom and provides an example lesson plan that you can use or adapt in your instruction. This is an ideal guide for any middle and high school English teachers seeking to incorporate the research-based practice of play into their classrooms.