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Background
Reading
In preparation for this workshop, you may want to read Chapter
1, "Literary Thoughts and Literate Mind," in Dr. Judith Langer's
Envisioning Literature. (Envisioning Literature,
by Judith Langer, from the Teachers College Press, Columbia
University, 1995. ISBN 0-8077-3464-0.) This chapter highlights
three classrooms and how literature plays a significant role
in fostering personal empowerment for students as they use their
literacy skills to develop understandings of texts, themselves,
and the world around them. Here, Langer also points out the
role of literature in everyday life and the power of literature
to embody the human experience.
You may also be interested in the panelists' reader
biographies.
For other resources, look under Additional
Reading.
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