Building adolescent literacy in today's English classrooms
By: Randy Bomer
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Portsmouth, NH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780325013947
Subjects: Study and teaching (Secondary); Composition and exercises; Language arts (Secondary); English language
Description: Deciding what to teach in English class is more complicated-and more important-than ever. In Building Adolescent Literacy in Today's English Classrooms, Randy Bomer summons his experiences as President of NCTE, Director of a National Writing Project site, a university professor, Co-director of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, and consultant in schools nationwide, to provide an approach to teaching English that works for today's adolescents.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: English: what to teach; title: Appreciating existing literacies; title: Teaching reading and writing lives; title: Environments for building readers; title: Building and inhabiting the world of the text; title: Teaching toward interpretive reading; title: Teaching thinking devices; title: Teaching toward great conversations; title: Writing that supports readers' meaning making; title: Writers' notebooks: tools for thinking; title: What is there to teach about writing to think?; title: Pointing students toward audiences; title: Empirical inquiry into qualities of good writing; title: Teaching toward participation in digital culture; title: Making more of grammar: studying language like linguists; title: Working toward tests without insulting students' intelligence; title: Planning a year.