The Book Club Connection: Literacy Learning & Classroom Talk

by Susan I. McMahon and Laura S. Pardo

This is a comprehensive text about the beliefs, issues, and practices at the forefront of literacy education-language, ethnic, and academic diversity; authentic assessment; social construction of meaning and knowledge-explored through the lens of a cohesive instructional design, the Book Club Program. As such, it provides a well-researched pedagogical model. Commentaries by eminent literacy scholars outside the project provide an expanded perspective...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807736147
• ISBN13: 9780807736142
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

A "must-have" for teachers interested in literature study

This book is a gem if you are a teacher, elementary or secondary who is interested in using literature in the classroom. Often called literature circles, literature study and here, book clubs, this book provides the theoretical background as well as the in-class applications for use in any situation. Students become motivated, engaged lovers of reading.