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The distinctive element of this book is that it offers ways to model for students some procedures for the reading of narratives and to design learning experiences that will allow learners to discover "rules" for reading complex works of literature.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Making Reading Literature Worthwhile
Chapter 2: Options for Frontloading Encounters with Complex Texts
Chapter 3: What We Notice and How We Construct Meaning
Chapter 4: As Patterns Emerge: Joining Along and Questioning Why
Chapter 5: Introducing Competing Critical Views
Chapter 6: Responding to Literature in Discussion and Writing
Chapter 7: Experiencing Literature as Performance
Chapter 8: Fostering a Reading Habit
Chapter 9: Connecting Texts in Coherent Inquiry Units
Appendix: "Poor Alfred, Buried Three Times"
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 (Teachers College Press), Raise Your Voices: Inquiry, Discussion, and Literacy Learning, Learning to Enjoy Literature (Rowman & Littlefield), and Teaching on Solid Ground, with John Knapp (Guilford Press).
John V. Knapp is emeritus Professor of English at Northern Illinois University, and, continuing since 2007, the editor of the literary journal, Style. Knapp is the author and/or editor of several other books, including Learning to Enjoy Literature (2021), Striking at the Joints: Contemporary Psychology and Literary Criticism (1995); Learning from Scant Beginnings: English Professor Expertise (2008), and Critical Insights: Family (2013).
Summary
The distinctive element of this book is that it offers ways to model for students some procedures for the reading of narratives and to design learning experiences that will allow learners to discover “rules” for reading complex works of literature.
