360 Degrees of Text: Using Poetry to Teach Close Reading and Powerful Writing Through Eileen Murphy Buckley’s 360-degree approach to teaching critical literacy, students investigate texts through a full spectrum of learning modalities, harnessing the excitement of performance, imitation, creative writing, and argument/debate activities to become more powerful thinkers, readers, and writers.
“I want to rebrand poetic performances as a really good academic activity as opposed a fun thing to do after testing in the spring. As research shows [performance] is a very natural way for students to do close reading, debate the meaning of texts, to make arguments about text, to orally articulate their thinking and their metacognitive awareness of their own reading processes … It’s a pretty powerful strategy.” ––Eileen Murphy Buckley, Director of Curriculum and Instruction, Chicago Public Schools, Pershing Area and author of 360 Degrees of Text: Using Poetry to Teach Close Reading and Powerful Writing View the sample chapter, listen to an author podcast, browse our Common Core State Standards resources, and shop all NCTE writing publications. |
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