Full Description
This volume explains how analyzing textual elements that aren't part of the text but connected to it can be used with K-16 students to improve comprehension, engagement, critical thinking, and media literacy.
Beginning with an introduction that briefly explains Genette's theory of paratext and discusses the functions of epitext theory, this book comprises theory-to-practice chapters that showcase ways in which teachers and librarians can use elements independent of a text to discuss texts and media with students. Chapters include a practitioner's section specifying practical approaches and explanations for how to use epitext.
Scaffolding an application of theory to practice, this title provides educators with an original approach to increasing literacy engagement and integration as well as for increasing media literacy and critical thinking. It includes practical ideas for using epitext in the classroom to promote critical thinking and for collaboration between teachers and librarians. It also includes editorial sidebars that provide additional "how-to" ideas, support deep thinking, make connections to relevant content in other chapters, and provide examples for students in K-16 classrooms.
Contents
Foreword
Teri S. Lesesne
Introduction: The Functions of Epitext
Shelbie Witte, Don Latham, and Melissa Gross
PART I: EPITEXT AND COMPREHENSION
Chapter 1: Epitext and Young Adult Fiction: A Case Study of Piecing Me Together
Melissa Gross and Zoe Leonarczyk
Chapter 2: Epitextual Analysis of Biographies: Enhancing Disciplinary Literacy
Sharon Kane with Deborah Heiligman
Chapter 3: Incorporating Epitext Through a Layered-Literacies Approach: Revisiting the Study of Maus
Luke Rodesiler and Eric Federspiel
Chapter 4: Learning Through Fan Fiction: Remix and Extension with Narrative Writing
Tyler C. Sisco
Part II: EPITEXT AND CRITICAL THINKING
Chapter 5: Laurie Halse Anderson's Wintergirls Epitexts: A Hard Book to Read but Worth Every Tear
James Blasingame
Chapter 6: Critically Analyzing Black Female YA Speculative Fiction Alongside Author-Produced Epitext
S. R. Toliver
Chapter 7: Fostering Diverse Learners' Comprehension and Critical Thinking Through Epitext
Loren Jones, Sharon L. Smith, and Luciana C. de Oliveira
Part III: EPITEXT AND MEDIA
Chapter 8: Creating Epitext and Intertext Perspectives with Mary Poppins Returns
Margaret Mackey
Chapter 9: Applying Media Literacy to Promotional Epitexts: Are They Selling Molasses, Falafels, or Books?
Shanedra D. Nowell
Chapter 10: Epitext in the CTE Classroom: Embracing Audiovisual Technology and Film Classrooms as Spaces for Developing Literacy Skills
W. Kyle Jones
Part IV: EPITEXT AND DIGITAL SPACES
Chapter 11: Critically Exploring Video Games and Their Epitexts: "I Never Thought Like This Before"
Brady Nash
Chapter 12: Role-Playing as Epitextual Analysis: Evidence-Based Guidelines and Considerations for Facilitating Online Game-Based Role-Playing for Librarians and Teachers
Jonathan M. Hollister
Chapter 13: Binary Texts Challenge Epitext: Robot Poems, or Poem Robots?
Katie Henry and Bud Hunt
Index
About the Editors and Contributors
