Go be a writer! : expanding the curricular boundaries of literacy learning with children / Candace R. Kuby, Tara Gutshall Rucker ; foreword by Jennifer Roswell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kuby, Candace R. (Candace Ross), author.

Rucker, Tara Gutshall, author.

Series:

Language and literacy series (New York, N.Y.)

Language and literacy series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language arts (Elementary).

Literacy.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 223 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Teachers College Press, [2016]

Summary:

Go Be a Writer! provides an introduction to poststructural and posthumanist theories in order to imagine new possibilities for expanding literacy education. The authors put these theories to work in the context of an elementary school classroom, examining literacy-based activities that occur as students participate with materials in a multimedia writers' studio. Focusing on literacy processes, the book emphasizes the fluid and sometimes unintentional ways multimodal artifacts come into being through intra-actions with human and nonhuman materials. Because these theories emphasize the unplanned, nonlinear aspects of literacy, the authors demonstrate an approach to literacy that works against the grain of standardization and rigid curricular models. Go Be a Writer! reveals that when educators appreciate the value of unscripted intra-actions, they allow for more authentic learning. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Paradigmatic and Pedagogical Shifts: Literacy Desiring 22

Poststructural and Posthumanist (Re)presentation of Riley/Frog 22

Poststructural and Posthumanist Theories: Paradigmatic Shifts 26

Enchantment with Possibilities and Potentialities: "Explod[ing] the Entire Educational System" 30

2 Poststructural and Posthumanist Theories: What Do They Produce in Writers' Studio? 32

Poststructural Ideas 32

Posthumanist Ideas 39

Theory ↔ Methodology ↔ Pedagogy 47

3 Living Out Theories as Pedagogy: Teaching ↔ Learning in Room 203 53

Flattening Room 203 54

Space 55

Time 60

Materials 62

Language 65

Trust and Permission 67

4 Intra-active Writing With/Through Daily News 69

Elza and Raisa: Body Survey of Ice Cream Flavors 71

Joe and Bethany: Football Web 75

Nick: Scavenger Hunt Mystery 80

What Did Daily News Produce? 83

5 Nonfiction Writing and Animal Research 85

Nonfiction Land of Room 203: A Game 86

Bye Bye Birdies Game: Research About the Not So Friendly Relationship Between Cats and Birds 88

How-to Video: Making Seasonal Snowflakes 97

How-to Videos: Making Recipes 103

What Did Nonfiction Writing and Animal Research Produce? 108

6 Personal Narratives and Writing for Personal Interests 111

What Writing Cycle? 113

Personal Narratives and Rhizomatic Writing Processes 125

What Did Personal Narrative and Writing for Personal Interests Produce? 142

7 Fiction and Series Writing 145

Gigi 145

21 Minus 1 Days Earlier from Gigi's Night Writing 147

Three Perspectives 149

What Did Fiction and Series Writing Produce? 155

8 Underneath the Large Noisy Events: The Absent Presence Writing 160

Plastic Cube Cities, All Over Floor 161

Paper Airplane Tournament 166

Tree Markings: Somebody Is Coming! 172

Skateboard Park with Paper Skateboards 177

Naming the School Hallways: "To Make a Creative Difference" 184

What Did Absent Presence Writing, Underneath the Large Noisy Events, Produce? 187

9 Planning in Order to Be Flexible: Creating Spaces for Literacy Desiring 192

End of the School Year, May, a Conference with Neil During Writers' Studio 192

Literacy Desiring: But What About Standards? 194

Emergent Listening; Being and Becoming with Children/Materials/Time/Space 196

Constituting Habits: Emergent Becomings of Tara and Candace 198

Ethico-Onto-Epistemology 203

Becoming Anew 204.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Kuby, Candace R., author. Go be a writer!

ISBN:

9780807757741

0807757748

9780807757758

0807757756

OCLC:

935191847