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Informationen zum Autor Audrey Fielding is a consultant with the Strategic Literacy Initiative of WestEd and the Bay Area Writing Program. Ruth Schoenbach is codirector of the Strategic Literacy Initiative at WestEd. Klappentext Building Academic Literacy: An Anthology for Reading Apprenticeshi p is a volume for middle and high school students addressing the topic of literacy and the important role it plays in our lives. Featuring lively and provocative essays, journalistic writings, and poetry as well as inspiring personal stories, the anthology offers a broad range of cultural and historical perspectives on the following themes: Literacy and Identity: The different ways people see themselves as readers. Literacy and Power: How reading and writing can open doors in our lives. How We Read: The different ways our minds work as we try to understand what we read. Breaking Codes: Our need to navigate unfamiliar types of texts. Created as a student text for course units based on the Academic Literacy curriculum described in Reading for Understanding: A Guide to Improving Reading in Middle and High School Classrooms (Schoenbach, 0-7879-5045-9), this Anthology appeals to advanced as well as struggling readers and is an invaluable resource in any English/language arts classroom, grades 6-12. A companion book, Building Academic Literacy: Lessons from Reading Apprenticeship Classrooms, Grades 6-12 (Fielding, 0-7879-6556-1), offers instructional tips, tools, and resources for teachers. Zusammenfassung Intended for middle and high school students! this title addresses the topic of literacy and the important role it plays in our lives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Part 1: Literacy and Identity. Selections describe the different ways people see themselves as readers. 1. "Sharon Cho," from Speaking of Reading (Sharon Cho). 2. "Kevin Clarke," from Speaking of Reading (Kevin Clarke). 3. "Inside Out," from The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child (Francisco Jiménez). 4. From The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (John Steinbeck). 5. "My Back Pages," from The Most Wonderful Books: Writers on Discovering the Pleasures of Reading (Greg Sarris). 6. "Seis," from Bless Me, Ultima (Rudolfo A. Anaya). 7. "Discovering Books," from Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth (Richard Wright). 8. "The Gift of Reading," from Better Than Life (Daniel Pennac). 9. "Coming into Language," from Doing Time: Twenty-Five Years of Prison Writing (Jimmy Santiago Baca). 10. "Silence," from Woman Warrior (Maxine Hong Kingston). 11. "Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood," from Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (Richard Rodriguez). 12. "Reading Has Always Been My Home," from How Reading Changed My Life (Anna Quindlen). 13. "Brownsville Schooldays," from A Walker in the City (Alfred Kazin). Part II: Literacy and Power. Selections show how reading and writing open doors in our lives. 14. "Gary Lee," from Speaking of Reading (Gary Lee). 15. "Two Ways to Be a Warrior," from Luis Rosriguez: Writer, Community Leader, Political Activist (Michael Schwartz). 16. "The Poets in the Kitchen," from Reena and Other Stories (Paule Marshall). 17. "Libraries and the Attack on Illiteracy" (Timothy S. Healy). 18. "Learning to Read," from The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Malcolm X, Alex Haley). 19. "In Conversation with Ernest J. Gaines" (Adrianne Bee). 20. "Learning to Read" (Frances E.W. Harper). 21. "Precious Words" (Emily Dickinson). 22. "Learning to Read and Write," from Frederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick...
