Imagine a thriving English classroom. One that's active, experiential, collaborative, and rigorous. Authentic Literacy Instruction will help you not just imagine this classroom, but also create it. Through a hands-on approach to student-centered literacy, the authors share how to reinvigorate your love for what you do and refine your practices to tap into the passions, strengths, and lived experiences of every learner.
• Understand what authentic literacy is and why it's important. • Transform your classroom into an authentic literacy community. • Develop your own expertise as a teacher reader and teacher writer. • Establish classroom routines that make authentic literacy part of daily practice. • Teach individual students and help them identify as lifelong readers and writers.
