Workshopping the Canon, livre ebook

Workshopping the Canon introduces practicing and preservice English language arts teachers to a process for planning and teaching the most frequently taught texts in middle and secondary classrooms using a workshop approach. 

Demonstrating how to partner classic texts with a variety of high-interest genres within a reading and writing workshop structure, Mary E. Styslinger aligns the teaching of literature with what we have come to recognize as best practices in the teaching of literacy. Guided by a multitude of teacher voices, student examples, and useful ideas, workshopping teachers explore a unit focus and its essential questions through a variety of reading workshop structures, including read-alouds, independent reading, shared reading, close reading, response engagements, Socratic circles, book clubs, and mini-lessons (e.g., how-to, reading, literary, craft, vocabulary, and critical), as well as writing workshop structures comprising mentor texts, writing plans, mini-lessons, independent writing, conferences, writing circles, and publishing. This book is for every teacher who has struggled to make beloved classic texts relevant to today’s young readers.

Acknowledgments. Introduction. Chapter 1 - Why and How to Workshop. Chapter 2 - Reading Matters. Chapter 3 - The Power of Language. Chapter 4 - Engaging Reader Response. Chapter 5 - Ways to Talk. Chapter 6 - Mini-Lessons to Teach. Chapter 7 - Need to Write. Chapter 8 - Workshopping as a Process. Appendix A: Canonical Texts with Sample Unit Foci and Essential Questions. Appendix B: Canonical Texts with Sample Unit Foci, Essential Questions, and Supplementary Texts. Appendix C: Reading Survey. Appendix D: Classwork/Online Binder. Appendix E: Movie Response Sheet. Appendix F: Book Club Project. Appendix G: Beowulf: A Hero among Us - Unit Test. Appendix H: Heroic Narrative Survey. References. Index. Author.