Collaborative Explorations of Character Experience - Reading Actively in Middle Grade Language Arts

Collaborative Explorations of Character Experience focuses on the experiences of fictional young people in eight middle grade novels. The experiences of these individuals are examined in chapters 1-8, and instructional options are presented in chapter 9 for collaborative explorations of character experience in middle grade language arts classrooms.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. One Crazy Summer: One Character's Experience Briefly
Chapter 2. Character Experience Explained: Jesse Aarons in Bridge To Terabithia
Chapter 3. The Lived Experiences of Gilly Hopkins in The Great Gilly Hopkins
Chapter 4. The Lived Experiences of Brian Robeson in Hatchet
Chapter 5. The Lived Experiences of Lolly Rachpaul in The Stars Beneath Our Feet
Chapter 6. The Lived Experiences of Frannie Barnes in Feathers
Chapter 7. The Lived Experiences of Doug Swieteck in Okay For Now
Chapter 8. The Recalled Experiences of Katie Takeshima in Kira-Kira
Chapter 9. Classroom Explorations of Character Experience
Appendix A-C
References
About the Author

About the author

Don K. Philpot is a teacher, teacher educator, and writer. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on the topics of instructional methodologies, content area reading, reading and writing instruction, and children's literature in Pennsylvania.

Product details

• Authors: Don K. Philpot, Philpot Don K., Reyns-Chikuma
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9781475860009
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-6000-9
• No. of pages: 180
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Teaching of a specific subject, Educational: Languages other than English, Educational: Language, literature & literacy, Educational: first/native language: reading & writing skills, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Reading & Phonics, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Language Arts