Table of Contents
Contents
Preface
About the Authors
Part 1: What Should Be Considered as We Imagine Our Literature Classrooms?
Chapter 1: Why Teach Literature?
Chapter 2: Who are my Students and Within What Contexts Will I Teach?
Part 2: What Literatures Will I Teach?
Chapter 3: How Do I Teach What My Students Are Reading?
Chapter 4: How Do I Teach Critical Media Literacy?
Chapter 5: What Should I Consider When Planning a Curriculum?
Part 3: How Do I Create Opportunities for Students to Engage with Literature?
Chapter 6: How Do I Help Students Understand What They are Reading?
Chapter 7: How Do I Encourage Students to Read Literature through Multiple Perspectives?
Chapter 8: How Can I Engage Students in Responding to Poetry/Spoken Word?
Chapter 9: How Do I Create Opportunities for Students to Talk and Write About Texts?
Chapter 10: How do I Create Opportunities for Students to Enact Responses to Literature?
Part IV: Where do I go from here?
Chapter 11: Evaluating and Assessing Student Learning of Literature: How Do You Know What They Have Learned?
Chapter 12: How Do I Develop as a Literature Teacher?
Author index
Subject index