"Presents practical tools, grounded in cutting-edge research, for teaching about language and language diversity in the ELA classroom"-- Provided by publisher.

Introduction:Teaching language variation and ideologies : questions and strategies : how to use this book / Michelle D. Devereaux and Chris C. Palmer -- "Word crimes" and linguistic ideology : examining student ideas about language in the English language arts classroom / Amy L. Plackowski -- Prescriptive and descriptive lenses : how a teacher worked with local linguists to develop a language ideologies unit / Andrew Bergdahl -- Profiling, prejudice, and prestige : language ideologies across contexts / Stacy Ishigaki Arevalo -- "Working with" instead of "pushing against" : meeting testing standards while teaching language ideologies / Mike Williams -- "Mr. D, is this, like, a real word? : stories of a linguist in a high school English classroom / John A. Damaso -- Linguistics in an English language arts class : elevating language awareness / Beth Keyser -- Using music to bridge language diversity / Jillian Ratti -- Power, society, and identity : language and life in a ninth-grade English classroom / Holly Hoover -- Language awareness in education : a linguist's response to teachers / Walt Wolfram -- Principles to navigate the challenges of teaching English language variation : a guide for non-linguists / Mike Metz -- Teaching linguistic diversity as the rule rather than the exception / Anne Lobeck -- DARE(ing) language ideologies : exploring linguistic diversity through audio data and literature in secondary language arts courses / Kelly D. Abrams, Trini Stickle -- Bringing critical language pedagogy to the middle school social studies classroom : lessons for standard English learners / Jessica Hatcher and Jeffrey Reaser -- Grammar in the Spanish/English bilingual classroom : three methods for teaching academic language / Mary Hudgens Henderson -- Attitude change is not enough : changing teacher practice to disrupt dialect prejudice in the classroom / Rebecca Wheeler -- Extending the conversation : two teachers' response to linguists / Suzanne Loosen and Teaira McMurtry -- Using digital resources to teach language variation in the Midwest / Amanda Sladek, Mattie Lane -- How power reveals and directs teacher language ideologies with high-achieving African American students in a secondary English classroom / Tanji Reed Marshall, Chrystal Seawood -- Sustained linguistic inquiry as a means of confronting language ideology and prejudice / Kristin Denham, David Pippin -- "Standard" English, "classic" literature : examining canonical and linguistic ideologies in Huck Finn / Jeanne Dyches, Cameron Gale.