Authentic Literacy Instruction

ebook Empowering Secondary Students to Become Lifelong Readers, Writers, and Communicators

By Billy Eastman

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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

    Authentic Literacy Instruction