Teaching Literature

american literature

british literature

multicultural/women's/world literature

lesson plans/course syllabi

drama/speech

shakespeare

young adult literature

literary genres/mythology

nonfiction

poetry

critical lenses

story response/writing

assessment

censorship

professional development

media/technology

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CHAPTERS

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

2

Understanding students’ individual differences: Who are our kids?

3

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

4

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

5

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

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

7

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

8

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

9

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

10

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

11

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

12

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

13

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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Leading literature discussions

Think-aloud prompts

Harvey Daniels, Literature Circles [on-line book]

Strategies for leading discussions

Annenberg/CPB: Going further in literature discussions

Great Books in the Classroom: A Tutorial

Elizabeth Close: Envisioning Literature [foster different stances in literature discussions]

Discussion Micro-teaching: Linda Miller Cleary’s course at the University of Minnesota, Duluth

Glenn, C. B. (2002). Critical rhetoric and pedagogy: (Re)Considering student-centered dialogue.
Radical Pedagogy, 4(1).

Unit: discussion of survival of the fittest

Designing a Discussion Lesson Plan:--An Overview: University of California , Santa Barbara

Multicultural literature A Friend of Their Minds: Capitalizing on the Oral Tradition of My African American Students, Yvonne Divans Hutchinson

Wolsey, T.D. (2004). Literature discussion in cyberspace: Young adolescents using threaded discussion groups to talk about books. Reading Online, 7 (4).

ReadWriteThink lesson: The Pros and Cons of Discussion

 

Literature Circles

Literature Circles: for Harvey Daniels’s Literature Circles

Literature circles resource site

Literature circles in high school
Cindy Adams
Christian Miller, Branford High School

Literature circles in middle school
Janet Lopez: Dzantik'i Heeni Middle School, Juneau
Janine A. King, Brighton School: Lynnwood, Washington
Nancy G. Patterson, Phd

Literature circles role description handouts

Sample chapter on training students for literature circles from Nancy Steineke, Reading & Writing Together: Collaborative Literacy in Action, Heinemann

Cindy Adams: Literature Circles Strategies

 

Online discussion sites about literature

T. DeVere Wolsey, Literature Discussion in Cyberspace: Young Adolescents Using Threaded Discussion Groups to Talk About Books, Readingonline

Online literature discussion sites for students

Visual Knowledge Project: Online Discussion

 

Online discussion sites: general topics

Soundout

Youthnoise

TakingItGlobal

National Youth Rights Association

 

Online discussion sites for adults (good places for teachers)

The Reader’s Place

Readers’ Paradise

Enter the Muse

The Book Forum

TalkaboutBooks

Beat Ink [organized by genre]

Books and Reading Forum

 

Free virtual Learning/Classroom Sites (for creating online classroom discussions)

tappedin.org site

Moodle.org

Nicenet.org

Online peer tutoring

 

MOO's/MUD's

Diversity U MOO

Brave New World MOO

MUVE’s Multi-User Virtual Environments

Text-based MOO’s/MUD’s

Read/Write/Think activity: Exploring Literature through Letter Writing Groups

Judi Moreillon , Digital Discussions: La Esperanza in the Shared Virtual Classroom, Reading Online

 

Blogging

Blogging sites
Blognex
Blogger.com
Weblogs.com
Livejournal.com
Globalblogs

Using blogs to Teach Writing

Educational Bloggers Network

Scott Hatch’s webquest on using blogging to teach writing

Using blogs in education:
weblogg-ed.com

Introduction to Blogging: The Internet Writers’ Journal

Open Source Weblog

Educational Bloggers Network

Using Blogs to Teach Writing

Books and Reading: Blog for school librarians/teachers

Descriptions/evaluations of different literary blogs: The Complete Review

NewPages literature blog

Arts and Letters blog

Bookslut blog

Electronic Poetry Center: Blogs on poetry

 

Blogs/Online Journals for Students

Book Diva

TeenReads.com

Teengirl: Yahoo online journal for adolescent females

Teenboy: Yahoo online journal for adolescent males

Leah Osman’s 10th grade literature class: Blogs and Literature Circles [see PowerPoint presentation]

 

Performing Texts

Poetic License (documentary on poetry slams)

Conducting poetry slams

DefPoetryJam

Cable in the Classroom: Digital literature [ideas for performing digital texts]

Cable in the Classroom: Project Cam [sharing texts through online video cam]

Voices Across America: Youth Storytelling

Bulletin Board Novel Forum Lesson Plan: participating on a bulletin board

 

Digital Audio Archives

Digital Audio Archive [liteature and poetry]
Audiobooksforfree.com
Wiredforbooks.org
Project Gutenberg: E-books
HarperAudio
Favorite Poem Project
Academy of American Poets: Listening Booth
Americanrhetoric.com [speeches]
UCBerkeley Library: Audio files
Bard College: Conjunctions [contemporary writers]
Electronic Poetry Center: Soundpoetry
The Internet Poetry Archive
Sound Poetry

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