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Preface | p. ix |
Literary Thought and Literate Mind | p. 1 |
Why Teach Literature? | p. 2 |
The Literate Mind | p. 2 |
A Classroom Example | p. 3 |
Literature in Life | p. 5 |
Literature in Schools | p. 6 |
What Is Literary Understanding? | p. 6 |
Building Envisionments | p. 10 |
Interacting with Texts | p. 11 |
Stances During Envisionment Building | p. 16 |
A Classroom Example | p. 22 |
The Nature of Literary Experience | p. 26 |
Orientations Toward Meaning | p. 26 |
Some Classroom Examples | p. 35 |
Life and Thought | p. 39 |
Shifting Orientations in Literature | p. 41 |
The Classroom as a Social Setting for Envisionment Building | p. 48 |
What Literary Discussions Look Like | p. 50 |
Two Classroom Experiences | p. 55 |
The Creation of Communities | p. 63 |
A Practical Pedagogy | p. 66 |
Principles of Practice | p. 67 |
A Class in Action | p. 72 |
The Envisionment-Building Classroom | p. 87 |
Strategies for Teaching | p. 89 |
Collaborative Support in School | p. 91 |
Examples of Collaborative Support Across the Grades | p. 94 |
Teaching Options: The Lesson as Activity | p. 99 |
Does Anything Go? | p. 106 |
Ongoing Assessment: Evolving Goals | p. 107 |
Literature for Students the System Has Failed | p. 112 |
The Reading Room | p. 113 |
A 9th-Grade English Class: Students with Special Needs | p. 118 |
Lovell Middle School: A Poor Urban Community | p. 121 |
Junior High 306: Bilingual and ESL Classes | p. 125 |
Building Envisionments | p. 131 |
Learning Literary Concepts and Vocabulary | p. 132 |
Literary Knowledge in the Envisionment-Building Classroom | p. 132 |
Teachable Moments | p. 135 |
Literature Across the Curriculum | p. 144 |
Introducing Literary Thinking in Subject-Area Classrooms | p. 145 |
Integrating Literature Across the Curriculum: A Team Approach | p. 150 |
Literature and Writing | p. 152 |
Closing Thoughts: Literature in School and Life | p. 155 |
Afterword: Teachers' Reflections | p. 159 |
References | p. 167 |
Index | p. 173 |
About the Author | p. 180 |
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