Description
Book SynopsisTeaching is an ongoing learning process. Readers committed to improving their effectiveness in the use of class time will find practical ways to improve their practice. In a conversational style, co-authors Anna J. Small Roseboro and Susan B. Steffel share successful strategies based on their decades of experience in diverse settings. Woven into the methods, materials, and management strategies for teaching reading are the contributions of eighteen others from across the nation with experience teaching adult students in a range of courses, settings, cities, and states. Readers will gain insight to engage, empower, and elevate themselves as educators as they meet the varied needs of their students.
Table of ContentsDedication
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Pre-Planning for Effective Use of Class Time
Chapter 2: Laying the Roadbed for Smoother Travel
Chapter 3: Networking with Narratives to Create Community
Chapter 4:Crossing into Novel Territory - Read Contemporary Fiction
Chapter 5: Developing Critical Thinking Reading Historical Fiction
Chapter 6: Reading Essay's, Speeches, and the Media
Chapter 7: Taking T.I.M.E. to Teach Poetry
Chapter 8: Reading to Write and Writing to be Read
Notes
Bibliography
About Our Contributors
About the Author's
