Description
Book SynopsisOffers research and theories grounded in culturally sustaining pedagogies and healing-centered engagements along with practical strategies for book club facilitators - from developing specific student-centered pedagogical approaches to embodying critical and humanizing dispositions.
Table of Contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments xi
- 1. Transformation and Inclusivity: The Foundation for
- Student-Centered Book Clubs 1
- What Has Been My Journey to Book Clubs? 3
- What Are Book Clubs? 5
- What Does It Mean to Be Transformative and Inclusive? 7
- Why Do We Need Book Clubs? 8
- What Are the Benefits of Book Clubs? 9
- Who Are Book Clubs For? 10
- What Are the Theories That Ground Book Clubs? 12
- What's Coming Up? 15
- 2. Getting Book Clubs Started Within Our School Communities 18
- Who Can Start and Facilitate Book Clubs? 19
- What Is the Purpose of Your Book Clubs and Who Will Participate? 21
- Where and When Do We Meet? 21
- Which Books Do We Use and How Do We Get Them? 23
- How Can We Be More Intentional About the Books We Read? 28
- How Do We Get Students to Join Book Clubs? 30
- How Do We Build Community to Prepare Students for Classroom-Based Book Clubs? 30
- How Do We Build Literacy Skills to Prepare Students for Classroom-Based Book Clubs? 31
- 3. Creating Student-Centered, Inclusive Spaces Through
- Culturally Sustaining and Emotionally Responsive
- Facilitative Practices 36
- What Does It Mean to Be a Culturally Sustaining and Emotionally Responsive Facilitator? 38
- What Happens During Our First Book Club Session? 45
- 4. Maintaining, Sustaining, and Assessing Book Club
- Conversations 55
- What Are the Structures We Can Use to Maintain Book Clubs? 57
- What Are the Rituals We Can Use to Sustain Our Book Clubs? 66
- What Mini-Lessons Can We Use to Sustain Our Book Clubs? 68
- How Can We Nurture Students' Reading Outside of Book Club? 72
- What Assessments Can We Use to Maintain and Sustain Student Progress? 74
- 5. Developing Literacies and Spaces for Emotional and
- Identity-Based Engagements 81
- What Do We Mean By Literacy Development? 82
- What Does It Mean to Engage in Emotional and Identity-Based Work? 86
- How Can We Address Trauma Within Our Book Clubs? 93
- How Do We Simultaneously Address Reading Development Along With Emotional and Identity-Based Work? 94
- How Do We Integrate Writing Into Book Clubs? 101
- 6. Developing Students' Social Awareness, Interpersonal
- Relationships, and Agency 104
- How Can We Use Book Clubs to Develop Students' Social Literacies? 106
- How Can Book Clubs Center Social Awareness? 112
- How Can Book Clubs Help Students Develop Relationships? 114
- How Can We Use Book Clubs to Impact Students' Sense of Agency? 121
- 7. Engaging With Youth Families and in Digital Spaces 129
- How Can Book Clubs Be Inclusive of Our Students' Families? 129
- What Do Book Clubs Look Like in Digital Spaces? 133
- Epilogue: Centering Joy in Book Club Spaces 138
- References 143
- Index 156
- About the Author 164
