Teaching Challenging Texts
Fiction, Non-fiction, and Multimedia- Authors:
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- Publisher:
- 2013
Summary
Teaching Challenging Texts shows how to increase reading comprehension and enhance student engagement, even with the most challenging texts. Every chapter features ready-to-use, research-based lessons, replete with explicit instructions, handouts, Common Core correlations, and assessments.
"Exploring the Future" features fiction by George Orwell, Suzanne Collins, and William
Golding; nonfiction by Philip Zimbardo, Stephen Pinker, Abraham Lincoln, Jared Diamond, Dan Ariely, and Ray Kurzweil; images from several films, an old television commercial; and classical and contemporary music.
"Understanding the Power of One" features fiction by Victor Hugo and Lori Halse Anderson; nonfiction by Phillis Wheatley, Sojourner Truth, and Edith Hamilton; a young adult book on archaeology, an animated film from Walt Disney, and an episode from Saturday Night Live.
An extensive list of free resources and correlations to the Common Core allow teachers to "teach on the cheap." Teaching Difficult Texts brimswith "relevant and robust" lessons for a new generation.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2013
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-4758-0520-8
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-4758-0522-2
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 158
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Foreword No access
- Chapter 1. Reading as a Social Activity No access Pages 1 - 10
- Chapter 2. Exploring the Future in High School No access Pages 11 - 46
- Handouts for Exploring the Future No access Pages 47 - 74
- Exploring the Future No access Pages 75 - 82
- Chapter 3. Understanding the Power of One in Middle School No access Pages 83 - 122
- Handouts for Understanding the Power of One No access Pages 123 - 144
- Understanding the Power of One No access Pages 145 - 152
- References No access Pages 153 - 158





