Chapter 4: Teaching Reading in High School -Teaching novels is a difficult task, 15 suggestions for analyzing essential questions -Literacy is "the ability to think and reason like a literate person within a particular society." (29) -Textual intelligence: meaning created by language -Not just what the story is about but what kind of thinking it evokes, how the author affects the reader -Teaching strategies for English: functional, expository, narrative, poetic and case studies. -Students can work in pairs to alternate their reading. -Reader can summarize the section when the listener asks questions -They can ask surface questions: who are the main characters? or deeper questions: what are their conflicts: inner or external conflicts? -Novels are to be pulled apart and examined and mirror our lives. -Stories have tremendous power (ie Jesus Christ! mentioned on p. 47) Chapter 25 -Designing your classroom -Have shelves with books for reference -Show examples of how Language is power (famous documents) -Have a student wall in which they express themselves (as appropriately as possible) -Life graphing, pictures of students,written work posted |