Teaching Literature to Adolescents by Beach, Richard; Appleman, Deborah; Simon, Rob;

Short description:

In its fifth edition, this popular textbook introduces prospective and practicing English teachers to current methods of teaching literature in middle and high school classrooms. The book invites teachers to consider important issues in the context of their current or future classrooms.

Long description:

1: Rick Lybeck, Assistant Professor, Minnesota State University, USA.

“The volume’s critical sociocultural approach to teaching literature is exactly what’s needed in this era of high-stakes testing and accountability. Here, the spirit of literature as exploration is revivified through real-world examples and methods to help secondary students not only find meaning in the texts they’re reading, but to engage compelling aspects of politics, identity, and agency as they do.”

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Table of Contents:

Preface  Part 1: Why Should I Teach Literature?  1. Why Teaching Literature Still Matters in the 21^st Century  2. How Will I Come To Know My Students  Part 2: What Texts Will Students Read and View in My Classroom?  3. How Do I Plan an Integrated Curriculum?  4. How Do I Choose and Teach Texts for My Students Within and Beyond the Canon?  5. How Do I Use of Multimodal/Digital Tools for Responding to and Creating Multimodal Texts?  Part 3: How Will I Teach Literature?  6. How Do I Foster Different Ways for Talking and Writing about Literature?  7. How Do I Encourage Students to Respond Critically to Literature Through Adopting Multiple Perspectives?  8. How Do I Engage Students in Writing and Enacting Literary Texts?  9. How Do I Support Students to Write and Respond to Poetry and Spoken Word?  10. How Do I Integrate Reading Instruction with Teaching Literature?  11. How Do I Assess and Evaluate Students Learning?  Part 4: We Make the Road by Walking  12. How Do I Develop as a Teacher Across a Professional Lifespan?