Go be a writer!
Subtitle: expanding the curricular boundaries of literacy learning with children
By: Candace R. Kuby, Tara Gutshall Rucker ; foreword by Jennifer Rowsell
Contributors: Rucker, Tara Gutshall, author
Series: Language and literacy series; Language and literacy series (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780807757741; 9780807757758
Subjects: Language arts (Elementary); Literacy
Description: "Go Be a Writer! provides an introduction to poststructural and posthumanist theories in order to imagine new possibilities for expanding literacy education. The authors put to work these theories in the context of an elementary school classroom, examining literacy-based activities that occur as students participate with materials in a multimedia writers studio. Focusing on literacy processes, the book emphasizes the fluid and sometimes unintentional ways multimodal artifacts come into being through intra-actions with human and nonhuman materials. Because these theories emphasize the unplanned, nonlinear aspects of literacy, the authors demonstrate an approach to literacy that works against the grain of standardization and rigid curricular models. Go Be a Writer! reveals that when educators appreciate the value of unscripted intra-actions they allow for more authentic learning"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Paradigmatic and pedagogical shifts: literacy desiring; title: Poststructural and posthumanist theories: what do they produce in writers' studio?; title: Living out theories as pedagogy: teaching learning in Room 203; title: Intra-active writing with/through daily news; title: Nonfiction writing and animal research; title: Personal narratives and writing for personal interests; title: Fiction and series writing; title: Underneath the large noisy events: the absent presence writing; title: Planning in order to be flexible: creating spaces for literacy desiring.