Learning to Enjoy Literature - How Teachers Can Model and Motivate

This book offers teachers productive approaches to treating textual interpretation not as an effort to reach a single right view or answer, but rather as a collaborative activity involving lively discussion of texts drawn from a variety of media.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Don't Go There
Chapter 2. Why Do We Have to Read This?
Chapter 3. Preparing for the Literature Experience
Chapter 4. Noticing and Making Meaning
Chapter 5. Modeling, Sharing, and Practicing
Chapter 6. Seeing Patterns and Structures and Making Complex Inferences
Chapter 7. Considering Competing Critical Views
Chapter 8. Responding to Literature
Chapter 9. Expanding Conceptions of Literary Texts
Appendix. Gary Soto's "Like Mexicans"
References

About the author

Thomas M. McCann is a professor of English at Northern Illinois University, where he contributes to the teacher licensure program. His books include Transforming Talk into Text, Raise Your Voices: Inquiry, Discussion, and Literacy Learning (Rowman & Littlefield), and Teaching on Solid Ground, with John V. Knapp.
John V. Knapp is emeritus Professor of English at Northern Illinois University, and, continuing since 2007, has served as the editor of the literary journal, Style. Knapp is the author and/or editor of several other books, including Striking at the Joints: Contemporary Psychology and Literary Criticism ; Learning from Scant Beginnings: English Professor Expertise; and Editor, Critical Insights: Family.

Product details

• Authors: John V. Knapp, Knapp John V., Thomas M. McCann, Thomas M. Knapp Mccann, McCann Thomas M.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.05.2021
• EAN: 9781475860221
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-6022-1
• No. of pages: 170
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; EDUCATION / Professional Development, teacher training, Teaching skills & techniques, Teaching of a specific subject, Educational: Art & design, Educational: Social sciences, Educational: Arts, general, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Arts & Humanities, EDUCATION / Teaching / General, Educational: Humanities & social sciences, general