LITERATURE Workshopping the Canon Mary E. Styslinger
“Workshopping the Canon has made me have so many ‘Aha Moments.’ If you are an ELAR teacher, you should read this!” —Shawna Easton, 8th-Grade ELAR teacher, Rogers Middle School, Prosper, TX
Styslinger demonstrates how to partner classic texts with a variety of high-interest genres within a reading and writing workshop structure, aligning the teaching of literature with what we have come to recognize as best practices in the teaching of literacy. Guided by a multitude of teacher voices, student examples, and useful ideas, workshopping teachers explore a unit focus and its essential questions through a variety of reading workshop structures, including read-alouds, independent reading, shared reading, close reading, response engagements, Socratic circles, book clubs, and mini-lessons (e.g., how-to, reading, literary, craft, vocabulary, and critical), as well as writing workshop structures comprising mentor texts, writing plans, mini-lessons, independent writing, conferences, writing circles, and publishing. 197 pp. | 2017 | Grades 7–12 | ISBN 9780814158470 $27.96 member/$34.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814158494
Engaging American Novels Lessons from the Classroom Joseph O. Milner and Carol A. Pope, editors Urging students to read novels can be a truly demanding task. But the ability to help students find novels engaging is a mark of an exceptional teacher. This collection focuses on ten frequently taught American novels, both classic and contemporary, that can help promote such engagement: ● Of Mice and Men
● The Bluest Eye
● Out of the Dust
● The Outsiders
● The Great Gatsby
● The Chocolate War
● Bless Me, Ultima ● Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ● Their Eyes Were Watching God ● To Kill a Mockingbird 390 pp. | 2011 | Grades 9–12 | ISBN 9780814113585 $31.96 member/$39.99 nonmember
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Stories Matter The Complexity of Cultural Authenticity in Children’s Literature Dana L. Fox and Kathy G. Short, editors This collection highlights important historical events, current debates, and new questions and critiques in the controversial issue of cultural authenticity in children’s literature. Contributors include Rudine Sims Bishop, © Susan Guevara 2000 Jacqueline Woodson, Susan Guevara, Kathryn Lasky, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Joel Taxel, and Mingshui Cai. Essays address the social responsibility of authors, the role of imagination and experience in writing for young people, cultural sensitivity and values, authenticity of content and images, authorial freedom, and the role of literature in an education that is multicultural. 340 pp. | 2003 | Grades K–8 | ISBN 9780814147443 $30.36 member/$37.99 nonmember
