Saturday, January 26, 2008

RTL: Literature Teaching

This is the place to put into practice the 4 reader practices of Freebody and Luke's Model (1999)

  1. Code breaker - outside text, suing strategies to get in
  2. Text Participant - inside text
  3. Text User - reading with a purpose - reads to understand, participate, and make use of text
  4. Text Analyst - steps back to analyze through social critical literacy lens - what's author's motives for writing - how did they try to shape the reader?
Teacher models them in whole class literature sessions - include new author voices and differnet styles of text

demonstrate:
  • re-read to make meaning
  • respond personally
  • encourage and accept different interpretations
  • discuss what she's learned thru reading
  • interrogate the text
  • question the author's motives
  • wonder if there is a different point of view
  • initial entry into a book isn't always easy
  • responses to reading should be grounded in the text - but this branches out to many interpretations based on reader's world
This gives kids a repertoire of ways to engage with the text (pg 147)

Developing a love of literature
We want kids to:
  • enjoy, feel, empathize
  • learn about their own lives/lives of others
  • delight in the craft of writing and illustrating
  • learn about their communities, culture, the wider world, other ways of being, other times
  • get hooked on books!
Principles of Lit Teach
  • Let kids choose texts!
  • Book Talks are essential! - pose questions, broaden our understanding, share our insights, explore hunches, discuss issues, develop interpretations (151)
  • There is no one interpretation of literature
  • Children s/be allowed to generate their own questions - teacher models question types


Class breaks into small groups to give students the time and opportunity to use them in meaningful group activities

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