Collaborative Explorations of Character Experience: Reading Actively in Middle Grade Language Arts - Hardcover

Philpot, Don K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1475859996 ISBN 13: 9781475859997

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022

Synopsis

Many middle grade novels published in the past 50 years focus on the personal experiences of a prominent fictional world individual age 10-14. This singular focus on one adolescent character, which is sustained for the full length of the novel, is most common in contemporary realistic or period novels. To explore the personal experiences of a prominent fictional young person with middle grade students, teachers will select novels whose exclusive focus is the lived experiences of one fictional world individual age 10-14 and guide students’ efforts to develop full and enlightened understandings about these individuals. Collaborative Explorations of Character Experience: Reading Actively in Middle Grade Language Arts draws on the personal experiences of eight fictional young people in an effort to answer three key questions: What can middle grade students learn about a prominent adolescent character in a middle grade novel by focusing on the personal experiences of that individual? In what ways do middle grade students benefit from reading assigned novels with a sustained focus on character experience and the personal experiences of a fictional young person? How can middle grade language arts teachers help their students to read assigned novels with a sustained focus on character experience?

About this title

About the Author

Don K. Philpot is a teacher, teacher educator, and writer. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on the topics of instructional methodologies, content area reading, reading and writing instruction, and children's literature in south central Pennsylvania.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1475859996
• ISBN 13: 9781475859997
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 180