Confessions of an English Teacher: All About the Teaching of Reading in the High School:All About the Teaching of Reading in the High School

Confessions of an English Teacher: All About the Teaching of Reading in the High School is intended to position English teachers primarily as reading teachers. The confession of this book is that the author argues that the goal of teaching English should be to encourage students to be readers. The English teacher needs to make that happen, and the book shows them how to encourage reading as a lifelong goal. The author argues that reading is the primary vehicle for literacy and that unless s...