Building Academic Literacy: An Anthology for Reading Apprenticeship [Paperback]

Building Academic Literacy: An Anthology for Reading Apprenticeship is a volume for middle and high school students addressing the topic of literacy and the important role it plays in our lives. Featuring lively and provocative essays, journalistic writings, and poetry as well as inspiring personal stories, the anthology offers a broad range of cultural and historical perspectives on the following themes:

Literacy and Identity: The different ways people see themselves as readers.
Literacy and Power: How reading and writing can open doors in our lives.
How We Read: The different ways our minds work as we try to understand what we read.
Breaking Codes: Our need to navigate unfamiliar types of texts.

Introduction.

Part 1: Literacy and Identity.

Selections describe the different ways people see themselves as readers.

1. Sharon Cho, from Speaking of Reading (Sharon Cho).

2. Kevin Clarke, from Speaking of Reading (Kevin Clarke).

3. Inside Out, from The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child (Francisco Jim?nez).

4. From The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (John Steinbeck).

5. My Back Pages, from The Most Wonderful Books: Writers on Discovering the Pleasures of Reading (Greg Sarris).

6. Seis, from Bless Me, Ultima (Rudolfo A. Anaya).

7. Discovering Books, from Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth (Richard Wright).

8. The Gift of Reading, from Better Than Life (Daniel Pennac).

9. Coming into Language, from Doing Time: Twenty-Fivl“z