Response & Analysis: Teaching Literature in Secondary School - Softcover

Probst, Robert E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0325007160 ISBN 13: 9780325007168

Verlag: HEINEMANN EDUC BOOKS, 2004

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In this fully updated second edition of Response and Analysis, Robert Probst leads you to fresh methods that build lifelong lovers of reading by opening your literature classroom to the power of student-driven interpretation and analysis. The second edition is chocked full of everything you need to plan and build a curriculum that initiates interpretative and critical conversations with and among your students while exposing them to a variety of genres-conversations that encourage students to be active, enthusiastic readers. Probst's updates and revisions speak directly to today's busy teacher, offering:

• a clear, coherent rationale for a more humane approach to literature teaching
• workshop activities that encourage adolescents to formulate articulate responses to texts, and that fit neatly into your existing curriculum
• extensive new suggestions for testing and evaluation in a standards-based education environment, complete with a variety of assessment rubrics and tools
• fresh ideas for utilizing television and film to bolster print literacy and make students more critically astute viewers
• a fully revised and updated discussion of contemporary young adult literature, including new examples, a compendium of online and print YAL resources, and a bibliography of the latest research and professional writing on the subject.

Teachers who have long trusted Probst's techniques for engaging student readers will be excited to find that Response and Analysis, Second Edition invites them into a new dialogue about teaching literature, while new readers will discover how this comprehensive guide uses best-practice literature instruction to help teens make the most of the magical moments they share with authors.

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Bob Probst is the author of Response and Analysis, he is coeditor (with Kylene Beers and Linda Rief) of Adolescent Literacy: Turning Promise into Practice, and coauthor (with Kylene Beers) of Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading and Reading Nonfiction; Notice & Note Stances Signposts, and Strategies, all published by Heinemann. Bob has also published numerous articles, chapters, and monographs in national and international publications.Bob began his teaching career as high school English teacher and then became a supervisor of English for a large district in Maryland. He spent most of his academic career at Georgia State University where he is now Professor Emeritus of English Education. After retiring from Georgia State University, he served as a research fellow for Florida International University. Bob is now a consultant to schools, nationally and internationally, focusing on literacy improvement. He works in schools with his colleague and co-author, Kylene Beers.Bob has served as a member on the Conference on English Board of Directors, an NCTE journal columnist, a member of the national advisory board to American Reading Company, and a member of the NCTE Commission on Reading. In 2004 he was awarded the NCTE's Exemplary Leadership Award, presented by the Conference on English Leadership.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: HEINEMANN EDUC BOOKS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0325007160
• ISBN 13: 9780325007168
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 306
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