One of the greatest challenges for English language arts teachers today is the call to engage students in more complex texts. We know how rewarding it can be to engage students in complex works of thought provoking literature but we know howMoreOne of the greatest challenges for English language arts teachers today is the call to engage students in more complex texts. We know how rewarding it can be to engage students in complex works of thought provoking literature but we know how demanding the job can be, too.
Tim Gillespie, who has taught in public schools for almost four decades, has found the lenses of literacy criticism a powerful tool for helping studnets tackle challenging literacy texts. TIm breaks down the dense language of critical theory into clear, lively, and thorough explanations of many schools of critical thought-reader response, biographical, historical, psychologival, archetypal, genre based, moral, philosophical, feminist, political, fromalist postmodern.