Bringing the outside in
Subtitle: visual ways to engage reluctant readers
By: Sara B. Kajder ; foreword by Linda Rief
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Portland, Me
Language: eng
Number of pages: 105
ISBN-13: 9781571107787
Subjects: Reading (Secondary); Reading; Remedial teaching; Visual learning; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES; Reading Skills
Description: The reading that we value in school is becoming further and further distanced from the literacy students experience in their outside lives. Inside the classroom, we ask our students to immerse themselves in print texts and write purposefully. Once out the door, they are text-messaging, blogging, engaging in online multi-player games, and expertly integrating words, images, and music to create original texts. Can we import these textual spaces and literacies into English class to help re-connect students who don't see themselves as readers and writers? English educator Sara Kajder's answer is a.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-105).
Table of contents: title: What does reading look like, anyway?; title: Personal narrative and digital storytelling; title: Meeting a reader : a literacy narrative; title: Marking a path through text; title: Working with words; title: The visual think-aloud; title: Making meaning; title: Afterword : Seeing again.