Reading Challenging Texts: Layering Literacies Through the Arts

Chisholm, James S.; Whitmore, Kathryn F.

ISBN 10: 1138058645 / ISBN 13: 9781138058644

Published by Routledge, 2017

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A very clean and straight copy with clean text and an uncreased spine. 137 pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reading Challenging Texts: Layering Literacies Through the Arts
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138058645
• ISBN 13: 9781138058644
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Clean & Unmarked
• Weight: 10 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literary Criticism & History

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Synopsis

CO-PUBLISHED BY ROUTLEDGE AND THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH

Bringing together arts-integrated approaches, literacy learning, and classroom-based research, this book explores ways upper elementary, middle, and high school teachers can engage their students physically, cognitively, and emotionally in deep reading of challenging texts. With a focus on teaching about the Holocaust and Anne Frank’s diary―part of the U.S. middle school literary canon―the authors present the concept of layering literacies as an essential means for conceptualizing how seeing the text, being the text, and feeling the text invite adolescents to learn about difficult and uncomfortable literature and subjects in relation to their contemporary lives. Offering a timely perspective on arts education advocacy, Chisholm and Whitmore demonstrate the vital need to teach through different modalities in order to strengthen students’ connections to literature, their schools, and communities. Accessible strategies are illustrated and resources are recommended for teachers to draw on as they design arts-based instruction for their students’ learning with challenging texts.

About the Author

James S. Chisholm is Associate Professor of English Education in the College of Education and Human Development, University of Louisville, USA.

Kathryn F. Whitmore holds the Ashland/Nystrand Chair of Early Childhood Research and is Director of the Early Childhood Research Center at the University of Louisville, USA.