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    "You Gotta BE the Book": Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading with Adolescents
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    "You Gotta BE the Book": Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading with Adolescents

    By Jeffrey D. Wilhelm

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    About this ebook

    This award-winning book continues to resonate with teachers and inspire their teaching because it focuses on the joy of reading and how it can engage and even transform readers. In a time of next generation standards that emphasize higher-order strategies, text complexity, and the reading of nonfiction, “You Gotta BE the Book” continues to help teachers meet new challenges including those of increasing cultural diversity. At the core of Wilhelm’s foundational text is an in-depth account of what highly motivated adolescent readers actually do when they read, and how to help struggling readers take on those same stances and strategies. His work offers a robust model teachers can use to prepare students for the demands of disciplinary understanding and for literacy in the real world. The Third Edition includes new commentaries and tips for using visual techniques, drama and action strategies, think-aloud protocols, and symbolic story representation/reading manipulatives.

    Book Features:

    • A data-driven theory of literature and literary reading as engagement.
    • A case for undertaking teacher research with students.
    • An approach for using drama and visual art to support readers’ comprehension.
    • Guidance for assisting students in the use of higher-order strategies of reading (and writing) as required by next generation standards like the Common Core.
    • Classroom interventions to help all students, especially reluctant ones, become successful readers.

    “This book points the way for us to cast our students as experts and collaborators in the educational enterprise.”
    —From the Foreword by Michael W. Smith, Temple University, College of Education

    “Simply put, it is a classic—timeless in its basic approach and yet full of relevant ideas and strategies for the era of Common Core.”
    —Deborah Appleman, Carleton College

    On the Second Edition:

    “This important book remains on the must-read list for literacy teachers working with adolescent learners.”
    —CHOICE

    “I hope this book is read and considered by all the stakeholders who can make a difference in education by following Wilhelm's lead of improving instruction to enhance students’ lives.”
    —Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTeachers College Press
    Release dateAug 31, 2016
    ISBN9780807775080
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    • 5/5
      For teachers or parents out there who are struggling to get their kid to read - get this book! Wilhelm has spent years researching the best methods for engaging struggling readers with books, and for helping engaged readers find even more meaningful ways of connecting with stories, novels, and other texts. "You Gotta BE the Book" gives a fairly good overview of why struggling readers don't like reading, what's preventing them from enjoying books, and how to fix it. It also presents some simple activities that are incredibly effective at helping kids enjoy and make meaning from what they read.As teachers, it is our responsibility to help struggling students over obstacles. This book isn't just for English teachers, though it definitely has more relevance to them than to any other subject; however, if you teach reading at all in your classroom, Wilhelm's ideas about reading activities and the struggle of low-level readers are definitely worth checking out. I found this book accessible, enjoyable, and incredibly useful in understanding the problems that many students go through and the ways we can help them overcome those problems.Some of the ideas seem very simple or common-sense, but it's nice to be reminded of what may help students. I especially liked Wilhelm's ideas of using drama and art to respond to a text, instead of the more common question-and-answer or essay approach. I think that all of the activities he presents are practical and easy to implement in the classroom. Read this one! It's worth it.
    • 5/5
      While this is a book I read as a teacher candidate, it is one that I will never let leave my sight. I cannot stop recommending it to fellow teachers. Wilhelm, a veteran teacher, delves into a year of research on what it means to be a reader. What do good readers do that unengaged readers do not? He follows nine students who represent the spectrum of readers that he often encounters. The reader is led on a journey through the year and is able to see how Wilhelm works to get those students who are disengaged, engaged. His philosophy aligns with many teachers' today (myself included). His recommended activities connect with visual, and auditory learners by incorporating drama and art heavily into the curriculum. His actions as a teacher researcher are admirable, and the results seemed both realistic and positive. Learning about research from inside the classroom has suddenly become more beneficial than any article I have read as a teacher candidate. His words help to give teachers a voice that sometimes gets silenced by the outside politics and policies.