Enjoying Literature

Classroom Ready Materials for Teaching Fiction and Poetry Analysis Skills in the High School Grades

By (author) Arlene F. Marks

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Publication date:

04 June 2014

Length of book:

270 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781475807400

Literacy: Made for All is a classroom-ready, teacher-friendly resource for English and Writing teachers of Grades 9 through 12. Organized buffet style, it is designed to complement an existing English curriculum by providing a tested repertoire of strategies for teaching both writing skills and literary analysis techniques.

Benefits and Features:

  • tested and proven effective at all learning levels, from Remedial to Pre-AP
  • provides complete lesson plans including reproducible materials
  • can be implemented as is or modified to suit individual teaching styles and/or students' needs
  • each skill, assignment or project begins by 'teaching the teacher', giving an inexperienced teacher the knowledge to provide effective instruction first time out and the confidence to modify and experiment thereafter
  • comprised of 4 components -- reading, writing, literary analysis, and language study
  • moves students from writing effectively to reading analytically (approaching text from the authoring point of view), a proven, highly successful methodology
  • can turn any English course into a Literacy course
  • extremely versatile and cost-effective
  • can deepen an existing English course or complete the framework for a new one

ENJOYING LITERATURE focuses on the close reading and analysis of prose fiction, poetry, and short nonfiction, and may be implemented alone or in tandem with STORY CRAFTING and/or WORDSMITHING.
Enjoying Literature is an insightful look at the intricacies of teaching poetry for the love of it. It is rich with concrete examples and ready-to-use handouts for the busy classroom teacher. Enjoying Literature is every teacher’s solution to the daunting problem of teaching the analysis of poetry to reluctant students. It is a resource filled with classroom-tested handouts and ideas. Having been the author’s colleague for eight years, I know the success these strategies have yielded for her in the classroom setting.