
- 197 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Workshopping the Canon
About this book
Workshopping the Canon introduces practicing and preservice English language arts teachers to a process for planning and teaching the most frequently taught texts in middle and secondary classrooms using a workshop approach.
Demonstrating how to partner classic texts with a variety of high-interest genres within a reading and writing workshop structure, Mary E. Styslinger aligns 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. This book is for every teacher who has struggled to make beloved classic texts relevant to today's young readers.
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Table of contents
- COVER
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1 Why and How to Workshop
- CHAPTER 2 Reading Matters
- CHAPTER 3 The Power of Language
- CHAPTER 4 Engaging Reader Response
- CHAPTER 5 Ways to Talk
- CHAPTER 6 Mini-Lessons to Teach
- CHAPTER 7 Need to Write
- CHAPTER 8 Workshopping as a Process
- APPENDIX A: Canonical Texts with Sample Unit Foci and Essential Questions
- APPENDIX B: Canonical Texts with Sample Unit Foci, Essential Questions, and Supplementary Texts
- APPENDIX C: Reading Survey
- APPENDIX D: Classwork/Online Binder
- APPENDIX E: Movie Response Sheet
- APPENDIX F: Book Club Project
- APPENDIX G: Beowulf: A Hero among Us—Unit Test
- APPENDIX H: Heroic Narrative Essay
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
- AUTHOR