Authentic Literacy Instruction: Empowering Secondary Students to Become Lifelong Readers, Writers, and Communicators

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. Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Authentic Literacy Chapter 2: Teacher as Authentic Literacy Expert Chapter 3: Relationships and Community in the Authentic Literacy Classroom Chapter 4: Promotion of Student Choice for Greater Outcomes Chapter 5: Student Application of Literacy Skills Chapter 6: Feedback in the Authentic Literacy Classroom Chapter 7: Classroom Routines That Build Authentic Reading and Writing Habits Epilogue Appendix References and Resources Index