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Mark Faust, Jennifer Cockrill, Cheryl Hancock & Holly Isserstedt


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Introduction
Is There Anything New About the Concept of a Book Club for Students?
What is a Student Book Club?
Part 1: Teachers as Readers
1. Revaluing Amateur Readers and Reading
2. Schooling (and) the Amateur Reader
Part 2: Readers as Teachers
3. Half-Cultivated Fields: Teachers as Readers in University Sponsored Book Clubs
4. One Day a Week: Nurturing Student Book Clubs in a Middle School Classroom (Cheryl Hancock)
5. A Conservative Radical: Finding a Safer Space for Freedom in the High School Classroom (Jennifer Cockrill)
6. Retracing the Map: A New Approach to Literature
Instruction in the High School English Class (Holly Isserstedt)
Part 3: Readers/Teachers as Learners
7. "To Carve and Paint the Very Atmosphere and Medium through Which We Look": Student Book Clubs and Literary Theory
8. Unresolved Tensions: Reconsidering Critical Reading in Classroom Contexts



New 2005! Just Published! See how to use book clubs for promoting the habit of reading among your middle and high school students!
Student Book Clubs:
Improving Literature Instruction in Middle and High School
Mark Faust, U. of Georgia
Jennifer Cockrill, Atlanta Girl's School
Cheryl Hancock, Teacher, Green Co. High School, GA
Holly Isserstedt, U. of Georgia,
Here's just the right blend of theory, practical strategies, and tested experience for you to use to make student book clubs an integral part of your curriculum! In these pages the authors show you how to engage students in less formal and more self-directed discussions of literature - and how to use student book clubs to enhance the experience of reading literature in both academic and non-academic contexts. Based on the diverse perspectives of four language arts educators who have successfully implemented student book clubs in their secondary level classrooms, the book gives you both a concise theoretical and historical foundation for book clubs, plus enough practical classroom tools and resources to put the ideas to work in your particular setting.

First you get an insightful introduction that looks at the development of book clubs and their uses, followed by eight chapters that give you some very helpful features:

  • The perspectives for four language arts teachers who have used student book clubs successfully
  • Reproducible materials that help you plan, implement, and assess your program
  • Sample assessment rubrics that help you gauge progress and participation of the group members
  • Extensive resource listings that send you to Web and literature sources so you can customize your program to meet the needs of your students and your language arts curriculum

    2005 Just Published Paperbound 224pp ISBN: 1-929024-82-7 Order #774 $28.95

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