1. Choosing My Teaching -- 2. Creating Literate Environments in Secondary School Literacy Classrooms -- 3. Writers Notebooks: Tools for Thinking and Living -- 4. Moving from Private Thoughts to Performance -- 5. Corridors of Meaning: Classroom Arrangements for Becoming Better Readers -- 6. A Place in the Conversation: Writing Literature in Response to Literature -- 7. A Curriculum for English: Seasons of Inquiry into Making Things -- 8. Fiction: Building a World of Possibilities -- 9. Making Something of Our Lives: Reading and Writing Memoir -- 10. Making Sense of Nonfiction -- 11. More than Magic: Elements of Craft in the Teaching of Literacy -- 12. The Extracurricular Life of an English Teacher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-230) and index.