Full Description
Students will not become enthusiastic readers of literature from a teacher simply assigning reading tasks and assessing the completion of the tasks, especially when the assessment takes the form of threatened quizzes. Instead, as this book shows, teachers have an obligation to reveal to learners the procedures that skilled readers follow as they work with and enjoy literature and a further obligation to help learners to recognize some value in tackling complex works of literature.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Don't Go There
Chapter 2. Why Do We Have to Read This?
Chapter 3. Preparing for the Literature Experience
Chapter 4. Noticing and Making Meaning
Chapter 5. Modeling, Sharing, and Practicing
Chapter 6. Seeing Patterns and Structures and Making Complex Inferences
Chapter 7. Considering Competing Critical Views
Chapter 8. Responding to Literature
Chapter 9. Expanding Conceptions of Literary Texts
Appendix. Gary Soto's "Like Mexicans"
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