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Description

Adolescents Rewrite their Worlds: Using Literature to Illustrate Writing Forms offers alternative ways teachers can engage young adolescents with the writing process using literature. The contributors discuss the values of writing in twenty-first-century classrooms and global societies, remarking that writing is first a personal exploration that is informed by cultural practices. Therefore culture is quite central in how we approach, explore, and express through any medium. The chapters consider ways to motivate students to become critically-conscious and active writers who are aware of their surrounding world, and the competing multiple discourses in which they are positioned. This requires intimate knowledge of audience, purpose, and genre and/or writing forms. We provide practical advice for teachers who wish to guide their students toward these goals. Additional features of this book include:

Authors/Contributors’ professional experiences of teaching writing using literaturePractical pedagogical practices that may transform the way teachers teach writing and use literatureInterviews with authors that give insight into their writing processWriting practices for twenty-first-century adolescents using new literacies

Table of Contents

Contents

List of Tables
Acknowledgments

Foreword:Patrick Shannon

Chapter 1: Literature: Art, Tool and More
Vivian Yenika-Agbaw

Chapter 2:The Transformative Power of Children’s Literature in the Classroom
Teresa Sychterz

Chapter 3:Writing Public Service Announcements and Genre Jabs
Jason Griffith

Chapter 4:Using Photo Story to Rewrite the Classics
Jason Griffith

Chapter 5:Multi-genre Projects and the Urban Classroom: An Examination of Language and Critical Literacy
Donna-Marie Cole-Malott

Chapter 6:Digital Literacy: Writing Biographies
Jason Moser

Chapter 7:Literature Responses and Academic Writing
Vivian Yenika-Agbaw

Chapter 8:Chatting with Artists
Mary Napoli & Sychterz

Chapter 9:Graphic Novels Comes Alive in a Sixth Grade Classroom
Mary Napoli & Teresa Sychterz


Appendix A:Transformative Teaching Practices

Appendix B:Teaching Resources

Contributor’s Biography

Product details

Published Feb 08 2015
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 160
ISBN 9781475813241
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Illustrations 30 BW Illustrations, 5 Tables
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Vivian Yenika-Agbaw

Anthology Editor

Teresa Sychterz

Contributor

Jason Griffith

Contributor

Jason Moser

Contributor

Mary Napoli

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