Full Description
From the authors of the popular blog and resource for teachers, The Classroom Bookshelf, this book offers a framework and teaching ideas for using recently released children's and young adult literature to build a culture of inquiry and engagement from a text-first approach. Reading With Purpose is designed to help K-8 teachers tap into their inner reader, to make intentional text selections for their students, and to create joyful and purpose-driven literacy learning experiences. The heart of the book is organized according to four purposes for selecting and using literature: care for ourselves and one another, connect with the past to understand the present, closely observe the world around us, and cultivate critical consciousness. Each chapter includes classroom stories, accessible research, reasons for why this matters now, and criteria for selecting for this purpose. A final section provides teaching invitations that pair with suggested books but can also be used with any high-quality book teachers may already have in their classrooms.
Book Features:
Builds on important work from thought leaders, urging teachers to create their own reading identities so they can help their students do the same.
Describes a simple, sustainable framework teachers and teacher educators can use immediately to make more purposeful text selections.
Provides myriad teaching ideas, narrative anecdotes from diverse classrooms, student work samples, and reflective questions.
Offers a list of recommended, recently published children's and young adult literature.
Contents
Contents (Tentative)
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Who We Are: The Classroom Bookshelf Story
Why This Book?
Purposes for Reading
Using This Book
Part I. Purposes for Selecting and Using Books
1. A World Purpose in the Pages of Books
Classroom Story: If I Were a Book
What Matters Most
Braided Purposes: The Reader, The Text, The Context
Many Books, Many Purposes
Purpose Matters: A Community of Readers
2. Center Care for Ourselves and One Another
Classroom Story: Nurturing Care
Why Center Care?
Why Now? Supporting the Whole Child
Centering Care: Understanding Ourselves and Connecting to Others
Selecting Books That Center Care to Reach and Teach the Whole Child
3. Connect to the Past to Understand the Present
Classroom Story: The Value of Knowing the Past
Why Connect to the Past?
Why Now? Barriers and Bridges
Connecting to the Past
Selecting Books That Connect to the Past to Better Understand the Present
4. Closely Observe the World Around Us
Classroom Story: Idea Making and Learning to Look Closely
Why Closely Observe?
Why Now? The Climate Crisis and Disconnect With the Natural World
Close Observation: Strengthening Connection to Our World
Selecting Books That Inspire Close Observation, Seeing the World in New Ways
5. Cultivate Critical Consciousness
Classroom Story: Raising Critical Consciousness Across the Curriculum
Why Cultivate Critical Consciousness?
Why Now? Agency, Equity, and Justice in an Ever-Changing World
Cultivating Critical Consciousness: Creating a Better World for All
Selecting Books That Cultivate Critical Consciousness Toward Creating a Better World for All
Part II.An Invitations Approach to Encourage Purposeful Reading
6. Invitations to Use Books to Center Caring for Ourselves and Others
Text Sets
Content Connections and Disciplinary Literacies
Reading Process
Visual Literacies
Writing Development
Multimodal Response
Social Emotional Learning
7. Invitations to Use Books to Connect the Past to the Present
Text Sets
Content Connections and Disciplinary Literacies
Critical Literacies
Reading Process
Visual Literacies
Writing Development
Multimodal Response
Social Emotional Learning
8. Invitations to Use Books to Closely Observe the World Around Us
Text Sets
Content Connections and Disciplinary Literacies
Critical Literacies
Visual Literacies
Writing Development
Multimodal Response
Social Emotional Learning
9. Invitations to Use Books to Cultivate Critical Consciousness Toward Creating a Better World
Text Sets
Content Connections and Disciplinary Literacies
Critical Literacies
Reading Process
Visual Literacies
Writing Development
Multimodal Response
Social Emotional Learning
In Closing
References
Children's Books
Index
About the Authors
