Teaching Texts in Secondary Classrooms

Catalog description

English language arts teachers want all of their students to love literature and become immersed in the texts they assign. Explores activities and philosophies for building a strong reading curriculum in the secondary language arts classroom. Through identifying proficient readers, conducting thoughtful conversations about students and reading, and using a variety of ways to invite readers into texts, designs and experiences reading workshops based on innovative and effective teaching strategies. Students learn to create and implement reading units, literature circles, books of choice, literary tea parties, reading portfolios and final projects. Students also learn hands-on strategies for supporting ethnically and linguistically diverse readers and for teaching reading from a critical lens.