Fresh Takes on Teaching Literary Elements: How to Teach What Really Matters About Character, Setting, Point of View, and Theme

Bring new power and purpose to the study of literature with innovative tools and strategies that deepen students' understanding of literary elements and help them apply that understanding to their reading as well as their writing. Rich, original passages illuminate the intricacies of character, setting, point of view, and theme, and engaging activities framed by inquiry enable students to transfer what they learn to new reading situations.- Facilitates active transfer of what students learn from one reading experience to the next- Impacts writing as well as reading- Engages students through inquiry

Jeff Wilhelm is the author of Improving Comprehension with Think Aloud Strategies (Scholastic) You Gotta BE the Book (Teachers College Press) and several other books. He has taught middle school and high school and currently teaches in the Professional Development Network at the University of Maine Writing Project. He regularly presents at national and international conferences. This is the second book in his Action Strategies for Readers series for Scholastic.

MICHAEL W. SMITH, professor in the College of Education at Temple University and former high school teacher for 11 years, has written eight books, including Authorizing Readers: Resistance and Respect in the Teaching of Literature (with Peter Rabinowitz) and Understanding Unreliable Narrators. His previous collaborations with Jeff Wilhelm include Reading Don't Fix No Chevys: Literacy in the Lives of Young Men and Going with the Flow: How to Engage Boys (and Girls) in Their Literacy Learning.