Facilitating Youth-Led Book Clubs as Transformative and Inclusive Spaces

ISBN-13: 9780807767504 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Jody N. Polleck

Spis treści

• Contents
• Acknowledgments xi
• 1. Transformation and Inclusivity: The Foundation for
• Student-Centered Book Clubs 1
• What Has Been My Journey to Book Clubs? 3
• What Are Book Clubs? 5
• What Does It Mean to Be Transformative and Inclusive? 7
• Why Do We Need Book Clubs? 8
• What Are the Benefits of Book Clubs? 9
• Who Are Book Clubs For? 10
• What Are the Theories That Ground Book Clubs? 12
• What's Coming Up? 15
• 2. Getting Book Clubs Started Within Our School Communities 18
• Who Can Start and Facilitate Book Clubs? 19
• What Is the Purpose of Your Book Clubs and Who Will Participate? 21
• Where and When Do We Meet? 21
• Which Books Do We Use and How Do We Get Them? 23
• How Can We Be More Intentional About the Books We Read? 28
• How Do We Get Students to Join Book Clubs? 30
• How Do We Build Community to Prepare Students for Classroom-Based Book Clubs? 30
• How Do We Build Literacy Skills to Prepare Students for Classroom-Based Book Clubs? 31
• 3. Creating Student-Centered, Inclusive Spaces Through
• Culturally Sustaining and Emotionally Responsive
• Facilitative Practices 36
• What Does It Mean to Be a Culturally Sustaining and Emotionally Responsive Facilitator? 38
• What Happens During Our First Book Club Session? 45
• 4. Maintaining, Sustaining, and Assessing Book Club
• Conversations 55
• What Are the Structures We Can Use to Maintain Book Clubs? 57
• What Are the Rituals We Can Use to Sustain Our Book Clubs? 66
• What Mini-Lessons Can We Use to Sustain Our Book Clubs? 68
• How Can We Nurture Students' Reading Outside of Book Club? 72
• What Assessments Can We Use to Maintain and Sustain Student Progress? 74
• 5. Developing Literacies and Spaces for Emotional and
• Identity-Based Engagements 81
• What Do We Mean By Literacy Development? 82
• What Does It Mean to Engage in Emotional and Identity-Based Work? 86
• How Can We Address Trauma Within Our Book Clubs? 93
• How Do We Simultaneously Address Reading Development Along With Emotional and Identity-Based Work? 94
• How Do We Integrate Writing Into Book Clubs? 101
• 6. Developing Students' Social Awareness, Interpersonal
• Relationships, and Agency 104
• How Can We Use Book Clubs to Develop Students' Social Literacies? 106
• How Can Book Clubs Center Social Awareness? 112
• How Can Book Clubs Help Students Develop Relationships? 114
• How Can We Use Book Clubs to Impact Students' Sense of Agency? 121
• 7. Engaging With Youth Families and in Digital Spaces 129
• How Can Book Clubs Be Inclusive of Our Students' Families? 129
• What Do Book Clubs Look Like in Digital Spaces? 133
• Epilogue: Centering Joy in Book Club Spaces 138
• References 143
• Index 156
• About the Author 164