For a better world: reading and writing for social action

Introduction: questioning our teaching and making it better

Literacy education for democratic participation

Justice in so many words: concepts for critical reading

Great talks about important ideas: strategies for critical conversations in reading

Democracy beyond words: social structures in the reading workshop: Exploring reading lives

Independent reading

Whole-class shared reading

Reading clubs

Struggling and difficulty in reading: managing vulnerability

A democratic environment: a place to foster public voices

Noticing the world: writers notebooks as tools for social critique

Writing for social action: collaborating on texts for public purposes

Teachers as political agents

Breaking the silence: the politics of children's personal writing.