Story: Still the Heart of Literacy Learning
About this ebook
- How to build a diverse, multicultural classroom library that reflects all voices through rich, purposeful, and varied texts
- Numerous examples of multi-genre and multi-modal stories from children's and young adult literature
- A practical toolkit at the end of each chapter to demonstrate how to make stories come alive in any classroom
Throughout the book, Cunningham shares her experiences as a teacher, literacy specialist, and staff developer and how building and talking about stories brings them to life. She honors the importance of teaching strategies to read different kinds of text, to write across genres, and to speak and listen with purpose while reminding us about the importance of story.
About the author
Katie Egan Cunningham is a veteran classroom teacher, a literacy consultant, and an assistant professor at Manhattanville College. She is the coauthor of the popular blog The Classroom Bookshelf as well as the coauthor of Literacy Leadership in Changing Schools (Teachers College Press, 2015). She lives with her husband and two sons where hilarious, heartfelt stories happen each day.
