Authentic Literacy Instruction : Empowering Secondary Students to Become Lifelong Readers, Writers, and Communicators
ISBN: 9781949539905
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Solution Tree
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time
Subjects: Education;

Imagine a thriving English classroom. One that's active, experiential, collaborative, and rigorous. Authentic Literacy Instruction will help you not just imagine this classroom, but also create it. Through a hands-on approach to student-centered literacy, the authors share how to reinvigorate your love for what you do and refine your practices to tap into the passions, strengths, and lived experiences of every learner.

Understand what authentic literacy is and why it's important. Transform your classroom into an authentic literacy community. Develop your own expertise as a teacher reader and teacher writer. Establish classroom routines that make authentic literacy part of daily practice. Teach individual students and help them identify as lifelong readers and writers.

Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Authentic Literacy
Chapter 2: Teacher as Authentic Literacy Expert
Chapter 3: Relationships and Community in the Authentic Literacy Classroom
Chapter 4: Promotion of Student Choice for Greater Outcomes
Chapter 5: Student Application of Literacy Skills
Chapter 6: Feedback in the Authentic Literacy Classroom
Chapter 7: Classroom Routines That Build Authentic Reading and Writing Habits
Epilogue
Appendix
References and Resources
Index

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