"They Read Outside of School ... Wow! I Didn't Know That": Reimagining Content-Area Reading for Secondary English Preservice Teacher Education

• In Event: 35.081 - Roundtable Session 13
  In Roundtable Session: 35.081-5 - Teachers' Understandings of Students' Literacy Practices

Abstract

This study investigates the experiences of one secondary pre-service English teacher facilitating an out-of-school e-book club with urban youth while enrolled in a required course called Content Area Reading. Data were generated through field notes, interviews, course assignments, and book club artifacts and narratively analyzed using holistic thematic inductive and deductive coding schemes. Findings show how the participant recruits his experiences and identities as a reader, a former grant-writer, and an aspiring English teacher to develop a disciplinary literacies pedagogy informed by his knowledge of disciplinary Discourses and youths’ lives. These findings have implications for how teacher educators prepare secondary English teachers to craft relevant and engaging content literacy instruction.

Author

• Terri L. Rodriguez, College of Saint Benedict