Teaching Challenging Texts: Fiction, Non-fiction, and Multimedia

Lawrence Baines; Jane Fisher

doi:10.5771/9781475805222

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

Edition: 1/2013
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: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. 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