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You Gotta BE the Book: Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading with Adolescents
Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
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Description for You Gotta BE the Book: Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading with Adolescents
Paperback. Series: Language and Literacy Series. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JNFD; JNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 454.
This award-winning book continues to resonate with teachers and inspire their teaching because it focuses on the joy of reading and how it can engage and even transform readers. In a time of next-generation standards that emphasize higher-order strategies, text complexity, and the reading of nonfiction, “You Gotta BE the Book” continues to help teachers meet new challenges, including those of increasing cultural diversity. At the core of Wilhelm’s foundational text is an in-depth account of what highly motivated adolescent readers actually do when they read, and how to help struggling readers take on those same stances and strategies. His ... Read more
Book Features:
- A data-driven theory of literature and literary reading as engagement.
- A case for undertaking teacher research with students.
- An approach for using drama and visual art to support readers’ comprehension.
- Guidance for assisting students in the use of higher-order strategies of reading (and writing) as required by next-generation standards like the Common Core.
- Classroom interventions to help all students, especially reluctant ones, become successful readers.
- Online resources, including inquiry unit templates, tools for teaching with drama, and tips for using visual techniques.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Teachers´ College Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Language and Literacy Series
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780807757987
SKU
V9780807757987
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Ref
99-50
About Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Jeffrey D. Wilhelm is an internationally known teacher, author, presenter, National Writing Project director, and distinguished professor of English Education at Boise State University. He is the coauthor of Teaching Literacy for Love and Wisdom: Being the Book and Being the Change and The Activist Learner: Inquiry, Literacy, and Service to Make Learning Matter.
Reviews for You Gotta BE the Book: Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading with Adolescents
"This important book remains on the must-read list for literacy teachers working with adolescent learners." —CHOICE "Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, this new and expanded third edition of "'You Gotta BE the Book'': Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading with Adolescents" is a fundamentally critical and important addition to college and university Teacher Education collections and supplemental ... Read more