Reading Challenging Texts - 9781138058644

Taylor & Francis

Reading Challenging TextsLayering Literacies Through the Arts\nAuthor(s): James S. Chisholm, Kathryn F. Whitmore\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138058644, 978-1138058644\nSynopsis\nCO-PUBLISHED BY ROUTLEDGE AND THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH\n\nBringing 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 Franks diarypart of the [url] middle school literary canonthe 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 liv.