| Preface and Introduction |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Part I: Reading College, Readers in College |
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Making Meaning---Your Own Meaning---When You Read |
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Student Narrative 1 Learning How Not to Read |
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Reading ... It's Not Just Books Anymore |
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Student Narrative 2 Why It Took So Long |
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Reading Radically or Radically Reading ... How I Try to Get to the Root of Things |
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Student Narrative 3 Learning to Read: For Me It's Been the Struggle of a Lifetime |
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An Open Letter to Jason Smith |
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| Part II: Reading Yourself Reading |
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Why We Read (or Not): A Class Discussion |
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Student Narrative 4 Reading Rooms |
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Student Narrative 5 It's a Gradual Thing |
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The (Reading) Literacy Narrative: A Limited Catalog of an Unlimited Resource |
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| Part III: Writers as Readers |
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Interpreting Poetry: A Song of Reading |
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Extraordinary Readings of Ordinary Lives: Interpreting Personal and Cultural Ideologies |
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Your Homework for Tonight: Read TV! |
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Go Back and Fetch It: A Method for Decoding Texts |
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| Part IV: Reading to Write |
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Making and Examining Strong Statements About Reading: A Journal Inventory |
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Discovery Reading: Conversations About Trifles |
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Angles of Revision: Using Purposeful, Dramatic Reading for Revision |
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Making Peace with the Research Essay: One Teacher's History |
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| Part V: Reading Futures |
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Reading and the Art of Berry Picking |
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Spiders, Files, and Other Creatures of Reading's Brave New World |
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| Part VI: Hint Sheets for Students (A--K) and Teachers (1--5) |
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A: The Process Cover Sheet |
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B: Summary of Inventions for Beginning a Literacy Narrative |
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C: Discussion Questions and Activities for ``From Books and Articles to Websites and Newsgroups'' |
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D: Ways to Respond to a Literary Text |
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E: Small Group Exercises for Reading and Responding to Literary Texts |
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F: Collaborative Project-Reading Ordinary Lives: Personal and Cultural Ideologies |
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G: Group Process and Evaluation Assignment |
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I: First-Year Writing Students' Descriptions of Reading |
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J: First-Year Writing Students' Advice for Improving Your Reading Process |
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K: Ideas for Revision Based on Rhetorical Reading |
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1: Teaching ``Interpreting Poetry: A Song of Reading'' |
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237 | (2) |
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2: Investigating Why We Read (or Not) |
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239 | (2) |
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3: Teaching with ``An Open Letter'' |
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241 | (2) |
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4: An Examination of Teaching Sankofa |
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243 | (5) |
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5: After Reading ``Making Peace with the Research Paper'' |
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248 | (5) |
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| Contributors' Notes |
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