{"product_id":"reading-with-purpose_9780807768518","title":"Reading With Purpose","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the authors of the popular blog and resource for teachers, The Classroom Bookshelf, this book offers a framework and teaching ideas for using recently released children’s and young adult literature to build a culture of inquiry and engagement from a text-first approach. \u003ci\u003eReading With Purpose\u003c\/i\u003e is designed to help K–8 teachers tap into their inner reader, to make intentional text selections for their students, and to create joyful and purpose-driven literacy learning experiences. The heart of the book is organized according to four purposes for selecting and using literature: \u003ci\u003ecare for ourselves and one another, connect with the past to understand the present, closely observe the world around us, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003e cultivate critical consciousness\u003c\/i\u003e. Each chapter includes classroom stories, accessible research, reasons for why this matters now, and criteria for selecting for this purpose. A final section provides teaching invitations that pair with suggested books but can also be used with any high-quality book teachers may already have in their classrooms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook Features:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBuilds on important work from thought leaders, urging teachers to create their own reading identities so they can help their students do the same.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDescribes a simple, sustainable framework teachers and teacher educators can use immediately to make more purposeful text selections.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProvides myriad teaching ideas, narrative anecdotes from diverse classrooms, student work samples, and reflective questions.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOffers a list of recommended, recently published children’s and young adult literature.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Erika Thulin Dawes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43037201530982,"sku":"9780807768518","price":111.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0650\/4051\/5174\/files\/9780807768518.jpg?v=1771608257","url":"https:\/\/www.tcpress.com\/products\/reading-with-purpose_9780807768518","provider":"Teachers College Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}