Table of Contents
How This Book Is Organized
I. The Urgent Need to Build Textual Lineages
1. African American Adolescent Males
2. Shaping Literacy as a Collaborative Act
3. Vital Signs of Literacy Development
II. Enabling Texts
4. Characteristics and Examples of Enabling Texts
5. Choosing, Creating, and Mediating Enabling Texts
6. Poetic Broadsides
7. Short Stories
8. Armed for Battle
Appendixes:
A. Sample Lesson with Explicit Instruction and Text
B. Forty Engaging Texts for African American Adolescent Males
C. Texts Mentioned in This Book
D. Ten Enabling Texts with Starters and Essential Questions