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Neville, Mary; Marlatt, Rick – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2022
Purpose: This paper aims to examine the reading of a book-length fiction or non-fiction text in one disciplinary literacy (DL) teacher education course. This paper considers how the assignment may help pre- and in-service teachers understand literacy as multifaceted and connected within and beyond their content areas (Moje, 2015). The research…
Descriptors: Books, Fiction, Nonfiction, Preservice Teacher Education
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Broz, William J. – English Journal, 2011
"Not reading," even for many good students, has become a mode of operation with respect to book-length texts assigned in school. Many students enter secondary and postsecondary literature classes "intending" to "not read" the books teachers assign. More students than teachers want to admit do not complete assigned reading, choosing instead to…
Descriptors: Literature, Reading Assignments, Teaching Methods, Teacher Expectations of Students