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Teaching Challenging Texts: Fiction, Non-fiction, and Multimedia
Author(s): Lawrence Baines (Author), Jane Fisher (Author)
- Publisher: R&L Education (UK)
- Publication Date: 26 Jun. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 196 pages
- ISBN-10: 1475805209
- ISBN-13: 9781475805208
Book Description
Exploring the Future features fiction by George Orwell, Suzanne Collins, and William
Golding; nonfiction by Philip Zimbardo, Stephen Pinker, Abraham Lincoln, Jared Diamond, Dan Ariely, and Ray Kurzweil; images from several films, an old television commercial; and classical and contemporary music.
Understanding the Power of One features fiction by Victor Hugo and Lori Halse Anderson; nonfiction by Phillis Wheatley, Sojourner Truth, and Edith Hamilton; a young adult book on archaeology, an animated film from Walt Disney, and an episode from Saturday Night Live.
An extensive list of free resources and correlations to the Common Core allow teachers to teach on the cheap. Teaching Difficult Texts brimswith relevant and robust lessons for a new generation.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Teaching Challenging Texts takes on an nearly insurmountable goal, seeking to blend a powerful commitment to adolescent-centered teaching with the demands of standards-based accountability and the needs of pragmatic educators. This book succeeds in its goal and should provide thoughtful educators with an invaluable resource as they build classrooms where students and texts matter.
To read Teaching Challenging Texts is to have a warm conversation with colleagues over a cup of coffee about how to teach in the visual-verbal world in which we all live. A breakthrough set of teaching strategies for a new age.
We teachers face our toughest adversary ever: Technology that is driving our students away from reading, enjoying and learning much from the great bounty of literature that provides the depth and breadth of essential knowledge. Baines & Fisher’s challenging book is a must read for all of us to become better teachers of this new generation.
