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