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CHAPTERS

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Goals for teaching literature: What does it mean to teach literature?

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Understanding students’ individual differences: Who are our kids?

3

Planning and Organizing Literature Instruction: How Do I Decide What to Teach?

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Using Drama to Foster Interpretation: How Can I Help Students Read Better?

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Leading Classroom Discussions of Literature: How Do I Get Them to Talk about Literature?

Writing about literature: How do I get them to write about literature?

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Using narratives in the classroom: What’s the use of story?

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Teaching text and task-specific strategies: How does the shape of a text change the shape of my teaching?

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Teaching the Classics: Do I Have To Teach the Canon, And If So, How Do I Do It?

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Multiple Perspectives to Engage Students with Literature: What are Different Ways of Seeing?

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Teaching Media Literacy: What else is a text and how do I teach it?

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Assessing and Evaluating Students’ Learning: How do I know what they’ve learned?

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Text Selection, Censorship, Creating an Ethical Classroom Environment. and Teacher Professionalism: How do I Stay in Control, Out of Trouble, and Continue to Develop as A Teacher?

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Elaine Showlter, Teaching Literature [pdf file] “The Anxiety of Teaching”

Allen Carey-Webb: from Literature and Lives: Cultural studies and reader response approaches to teaching literature

Allen Carey-Webb: Literary Theory and English Teaching

Annenberg CPB: The Expanding Canon: Teaching Multicultural Literature: Reader Response Theory

All American: Literature, History, and Culture

Essays on the Teaching of American Literature from the Heath Anthology Newsletter

Issues in the teaching of American literature: from the T-AMLIT JOURNAL

British Council on the Arts: Contemporary British Writers

Sample chapter: The Acid Test for Literature Teaching, Louise Rosenblatt, Making Meaning with Texts : Selected Essays , Heinemann

Teaching American Literature

Annenberg/CPB: Teaching Mulicultural Literature: Using inquiry to define the literature curriculum

State of Maryland: Formulating teaching goals in literature

University of Minnesota: Online Workshop: Making Active Learning Work

University of Minnesota: Online Workshop: Active Learning with PowerPoint

University of Minnesota: Online Workshop: Designing Smart Lectures

Suzanne E. Wade and Elizabeth Birr Moje , The Role of Text in Classroom Learning: Beginning an Online Dialogue. Readingonline (uses of texts in transmission instruction versus constructivist learning)

Tasmania, Australia: Framework: Essentials for Teaching English

Teachit Website: resources and book club: free registration