Table of Contents

I. Developing Our Knowledge Base: Theories for Teaching
1. A Philosophy of Teaching
2. A Philosophy of Teaching Reading
3. The Democratic Classroom
II. Extending Our Practice: Teaching Strategies for Assisting Adolescent Readers
4. Frontloading: Teaching Before Reading
5. Loving the Questions Themselves: Fostering Student Questioning and Discussion
6. Building on Different Strengths to Make Reading Visible
7. Assignment Sequencing: Teaching Students Text by Text, Activity by Activity
8. Reading Together
Epilogue: Reenvisioning Reading and the English Classroom