Kathy Gnagey Short

Jerome Charles Harste

Carolyn L. Burke

The authors offer ideas and rich descriptions of how their curriculum moved from writing and reading to include inquiry.

Creating Classrooms for Authors and Inquirers

Curricular framework and ideas for classroom reading and writing experiences.

The Reading-writing Connection

Creating Classrooms for Authors

Mitzi Lewison

Christine Leland

This groundbreaking text offers a fresh perspective on how to implement children's literature into and across the curriculum in ways that are both effective and purposeful. Honed over years of experience and reflection in classroom settings and rich with real examples of teachers implementing critical pedagogy, it invites multiple ways of engaging with literature that extend beyond the genre and elements approach and also addresses potential problems or issues that teachers may confront. The book is structured around three 'mantras' that build on each other: Enjoy; Dig deeper; Take action. The practical strategies for taking a critical approach focus on issues that impact children's lives, building from students' personal experiences and cultural knowledge to using language to question the everyday world, analyze popular culture and media, understand how power relationships are socially constructed, and consider actions that can be taken to promote social justice. This book teems with pedagogical purpose. It is smart, principled, and useful. Its freshness and currency will resonate with readers and inspire their teaching. A Companion Website (www.routledge.com/cw/leland) enriches and extends the text.

It's Critical!

Teaching Children's Literature

Critical literacy practices encourage students to use language to question the everyday world, interrogate the relationship between language and power, analyse popular culture and media, understand how power relationships are socially constructed, and consider actions that can be taken to promote social justice.

Jerome Charles Harste

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