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.
- Online resources, including inquiry unit templates, tools for teaching
with drama, and tips for using visual techniques.
