Reading for their life
Subtitle: (re)building the textual lineages of African American adolescent males
By: Alfred W. Tatum ; foreword by Michael W. Smith.
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Portsmouth, NH
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780325026794
Subjects: African American boys -- Education (Secondary); Teenagers with social disabilities -- Education (Secondary) -- United States; Reading (Secondary) -- Social aspects -- United States; African American boys -- Books and reading; African American teenagers -- Books and reading; African American boys -- Race identity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: African American adolescent males; title: Shaping literacy as a collaborative act; title: Vital signs of literacy development; title: Characteristics and examples of enabling texts; title: Choosing, creating, and mediating enabling texts; title: Poetic broadsides; title: Short stories; title: Armed for battle; title: Appendix A: sample lesson with explicit instruction and text; title: Appendix B: forty engaging texts for African American adolescent males; title: Appendix C: texts mentioned in this book; title: Appendix D: ten enabling texts with starters and essential questions.