Título: Book Love: Developing Depth, Stamina, and Passion in Adolescent Readers
Autor: Penny Kittle
Sinopse: “I believe each of my students must craft an individual reading life of challenge, whim, curiosity, and hunger, and I’ve discovered that it is not too late in high school to lead a non-reader to reading. It’s never too late.”―Penny Kittle
Penny Kittle wants us to face the hard truths every English teacher fears: too many kids don’t read the assigned texts, and some even manage to slip by without having ever read a single book by the time they graduate. As middle and high school reading declines, college professors lament students’ inability to comprehend and analyze complex texts, while the rest of us wonder: what do we lose as a society when so many of our high school graduates have no interest in reading anything?
In Book Love Penny takes student apathy head on, first by recognizing why students don’t read and then showing us that when we give kids books that are right for them, along with time to read and regular response to their thinking, we can create a pathway to satisfying reading that leads to more challenging literature and ultimately, a love of reading.
With a clear eye on the reality of today’s classrooms, Penny provides practical strategies and advice on: increasing volume, capacity, and complexity over time creating a balance of independent reading, text study, and novel study helping students deepen their thinking through writing about reading building a classroom library with themes that matter to 21st century kids.
Book Love is a call to arms for putting every single kid, no exceptions allowed, on a personal reading journey. But much more than that, it’s a powerful reminder of why we became English teachers in the first place: our passion for books. Books matter. Stories heal. The right book in the hands of a kid can change a life forever. We can’t wait for anyone else to teach our students a love of books―it’s up to us and the time is now. If not you, who?
For information about the Book Love Foundation, which provides classroom libraries to deserving teachers and schools, visit booklovefoundation.org.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Book Love: Developing Depth, Stamina, and Passion in Adolescent Readers”, de Penny Kittle, publicado pela editora Heinemann, em 2012 e com 192 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Heinemann
Páginas: 192
Ano: 2012-10-26
Edição: 1
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 0325042950
ISBN13: 9780325042954
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora HEINEMANN apresentam uma variedade que vai desde obras literárias com forte carga cultural e histórica até materiais didáticos voltados para o aprendizado da língua inglesa. O catálogo revela uma atenção especial a narrativas que exploram conflitos sociais e culturais, como o impacto do colonialismo e a preservação de tradições locais, além de trabalhos que abordam o ensino de gramática e estratégias de leitura para diferentes níveis. A experiência de leitura pode variar do tom mais narrativo e envolvente, com personagens inseridos em contextos históricos, até o formato mais instrucional e prático, focado em aprendizagem e desenvolvimento de habilidades. Essa diversidade sugere que HEINEMANN atende tanto leitores interessados em ficção com densidade cultural quanto educadores e estudantes buscando recursos pedagógicos.
