| Contents |
English teacher or reading teacher? A wake-up call -- What we know about adolescent reading and what literature teachers need to know -- What is a text? Real world literacy and reading instruction -- Teaching reading and teaching literature -- To read or not to read: rethinking the "struggling reader" in the literature classroom -- The gender of reading in the literature classroom -- Reading assessment in the literature classroom: reclaiming the agenda -- Reaching outward: from adolescent to adult literacy -- Reading, adolescents, and literature: the crisis in context. |
| Abstract |
Deborah Appleman dismantles the traditional divide between secondary teachers of literature and teachers of reading and offers a variety of practical ways to teach reading within the context of literature classrooms. --from publisher description |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-111) and index. |
| LCCN | 2010014346 |
| ISBN | 9780814100561 ((pbk) : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0814100562 ((pbk) : alk. paper) |
