Imagine if going to school meant more than preparing kids for a
test, teaching a canned curriculum, and training students for their
future as workers. What if school were also about cultivating
students to be caring, community-involved citizens and critical,
creative thinkers who love to read?
In "Caring Hearts & Critical Minds," teacher-author Steven
Wolk shows teachers how to help students become better readers as
well as better people. "I want my students] to be thinkers and have
rich conversations regarding critical issues in the text and be
able to formulate opinions regarding these issues," says Leslie
Rector, a sixth-grade teacher who collaborated with Wolk on some of
the units featured in this book.
Wolk demonstrates how to integrate inquiry learning, exciting
and contemporary literature, and teaching for social responsibility
across the curriculum. He takes teachers step-by-step through the
process of designing an inquiry-based literature unit and then
provides five full units used in real middle-grade classrooms.
Featuring a remarkable range of recommended resources and hundreds
of novels from across the literary genres, "Caring Hearts &
Critical Minds" gives teachers a blueprint for creating dynamic
units with rigorous lessons about topics kids care about--from
media and the environment to personal happiness and global poverty.
Wolk shows teachers how to find stimulating, real-world "complex
texts" called for in the Common Core State Standards and integrate
them into literature units.
"I know from experience that a great book changes the reader,"
says Karen Tellez, an eighth-grade teacher featured in the book.
"For me, books have helped me escape, fall in love, recover from
heartbreak, and have broken open my mind from the age of twelve. .
. . I hope my students] gain better reading comprehension,
confidence as readers, connections to the characters and events, a
curiosity for the world, and tolerance for others."
"Caring Hearts & Critical Minds "shows teachers how to turn
these hopes and goals into reality.
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