Contents Preface About the Authors Part 1: What Should Be Considered as We Imagine Our Literature Classrooms? Chapter 1: Why Teach Literature? Chapter 2: Who are my Students and Within What Contexts Will I Teach? Part 2: What Literatures Will I Teach? Chapter 3: How Do I Teach What My Students Are Reading? Chapter 4: How Do I Teach Critical Media Literacy? Chapter 5: What Should I Consider When Planning a Curriculum? Part 3: How Do I Create Opportunities for Students to Engage with Literature? Chapter 6: How Do I Help Students Understand What They are Reading? Chapter 7: How Do I Encourage Students to Read Literature through Multiple Perspectives? Chapter 8: How Can I Engage Students in Responding to Poetry/Spoken Word? Chapter 9: How Do I Create Opportunities for Students to Talk and Write About Texts? Chapter 10: How do I Create Opportunities for Students to Enact Responses to Literature? Part IV: Where do I go from here? Chapter 11: Evaluating and Assessing Student Learning of Literature: How Do You Know What They Have Learned? Chapter 12: How Do I Develop as a Literature Teacher? Author index Subject index stand What They are Reading? Chapter 7: How Do I Encourage Students to Read Literature through Multiple Perspectives? Chapter 8: How Can I Engage Students in Responding to Poetry/Spoken Word? Chapter 9: How Do I Create Opportunities for Students to Talk and Write About Texts? Chapter 10: How do I Create Opportunities for Students to Enact Responses to Literature? Part IV: Where do I go from here? Chapter 11: Evaluating and Assessing Student Learning of Literature: How Do You Know What They Have Learned? Chapter 12: How Do I Develop as a Literature Teacher? Author index Subject index.