Reading and Writing for Resiliency

by Tatum, Alfred W.

• ISBN13: 9780325030562
• ISBN10: 0325030561
• Edition: DVD
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-03-26
• Publisher: Heinemann

Summary

Literacy coaches and staff developers, save when you order the Reading for Their Life Staff Development Bundle. Get 10 copies of Reading for Their Life and 1 copy of Reading & Writing for Resiliency for 1 low price. A $335 value for $284.75-SAVE $50.25. In his staff development companion to Reading with Their Life, Alfred Tatum demonstrates the power enabling texts can have to change the life of African American adolescent males-and every student in the class. On this powerful DVD, Alfred takes you into Deborah Osher's classroom to see how his strategies work in regular, mixed-race/mixed-gender settings. Through his coaching commentary and her teaching moves, you'll see how to leverage enabling texts to connect black, white, and Latino male and female students with empowering reading and writing instruction. You'll witness the transformation that can happen when students begin reading and writing texts that they find meaningful and significant. You'll also see firsthand how by constructing their own "textual lineages"-lists of books, poems and other works they believe they will always find meaningful-they draw a roadmap for school and life by developing academic and real-world resiliency.

Author Biography

Alfred Tatum's Reading for Their Life is the foundation for the instruction your teachers will see on this video. It's the book that shows reading and writing aren't just literacy behaviors, but the keys to helping students shape their lives. Ideal for book study groups and available in specially priced book study bundles, it shows how enabling texts can change the life trajectory of African American adolescent males.