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: Classroom Library Book Recommendations
References and Resources
Index