Teaching Literature to Adolescents

Richard Beach is Professor Emeritus of English Education at the University of Minnesota, USA. Deborah Appleman is the Hollis L. Caswell Professor and Chair of Educational Studies at Carleton College, USA. Bob Fecho is Professor of English Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA. Rob Simon is Associate Professor of Multiliteracies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, Canada.

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