Teaching New Literacies in Grades K-3: Resources for 21st-Century Classrooms (Paperback)

1. Introduction, Barbara Moss and Diane Lapp

I. Teaching the Genres: What Students Often Encounter

2. Teaching with Folk Literature in the Primary Grades, Terrell A. Young, Barbara A. Ward, and L. Beth Cameron

3. Every Story Has a Problem: How to Improve Student Narrative Writing in Grades K–3, Sue Dymock and Tom Nicholson

4. Poetry Power: First-Graders Tackle Two-Worders, Claudia Dybdahl and Tammy Black

5. Using Readers’ Theater to Engage Young Readers, Regina M. Rees

6. Junior Journalists: Reading and Writing News in the Primary Grades, Nancy Frey and Douglas Fisher

7. Using Procedural Texts and Documents to Develop Functional Literacy in Students: The Key to Their Future in a World of Words, Martha D. Collins and Amy B. Horton

8. Going Beyond Opinion: Teaching Primary Children to Write Persuasively, Dana L. Grisham, Cheryl Wozniak, and Thomas DeVere Wolsey

9. Reading Biography: Evaluating Information across Texts, Barbara Moss and Diane Lapp

II. Teaching Other Genres: What Students Could Also Encounter

10. Using Comic Literature with Elementary Students, Chris Wilson

11. Using Primary-Source Documents and Digital Storytelling as a Catalyst for Writing Historical Fiction, Carol J. Fuhler

12. Self-Expressing through Hip-Hop as Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, Nadjwa E. L. Norton

Chapter 13. Exploring High-Stakes Tests as a Genre, Charles Fuhrken and Nancy Roser

14. Reading a Science Experiment: Deciphering the Language of Scientists, Maria Grant

15. Reading + Mathematics = SUCCESS: Using Literacy Strategies to Enhance Problem-Solving Skills, Mary Lou DiPillo

16. Promoting Literacy through Visual Aids: Teaching Students to Read Graphs, Maps, Charts, and Tables

Paola Pilonieta, Karen Wood, and D. Bruce Taylor

17. Critically Reading Advertisements: Examining Visual Images and Persuasive Language, Lori Czop Assaf and Alina Adonyi

18. Reading Web-Based Electronic Texts: Using Think-Alouds to Help Students Begin to Understand the Process, Christine A. McKeon

19. Comparatively Reading Multiple Sources: Developing Critical Literacy in a Second-Grade Classroom, Jesse Gainer

20. Using Written Response for Reading Comprehension of Literary Text, Ruth Oswald, Evangeline Newton, and Joanna Newton

III. Crafting the Genre: Sharing One’s Voice through Writing

21. Reading Persuasive Texts, Thomas DeVere Wolsey, Cheryl Pham, and Dana L. Grisham

22. Writing a Biography: Creating Powerful Insights into History and Personal Lives, Dorothy Leal

23. Monumental Ideas for Teaching Report Writing through a Visit to Washington, DC, Susan K. Leone

24. Writing Summaries of Expository Text Using the Magnet Summary Strategy, Laurie Elish-Piper and Susan R. Hinrichs

25. Conclusion: Looking Back, Looking Forward, Diane Lapp and Barbara Moss