Teacher Talk: Teaching Literature for Transfer

Offered in partnership with Mass Insight Education and Research

Literary study provides students with rich opportunities for developing transferable literacy skills, including the ability to make connections across contexts, read closely and critically, assess the rhetorical situation, analyze genres, and negotiate different voices. Participants will experience how using activities like “Descriptive Plot Outlining,” “Rhetorical Précis +,” and “Say, Mean, Matter, Do” with novels, short stories, and poems can promote integrative thinking and metacognitive knowledge. Readings, student examples, and graphic organizers will be provided.

Facilitator: Jennifer Fletcher

Jennifer Fletcher is a Professor of English at Cal State Monterey Bay and the Chair of the ERWC Steering Committee. Her twenty-five years of experience in education include a decade as a high school teacher. She is the author of Teaching Arguments (2015), Teaching Literature Rhetorically (2018), and Writing Rhetorically (2021) and the co-author of Fostering Habits of Mind in Today's Students (2015). Jennifer is involved with several K16 partnerships focused on supporting the long-term success of all students, including the College Board’s Pre-AP Program and the WRITE Center (Writing Research to Improve Teaching and Evaluation) at the University of California, Irvine. She tweets @JenJFletcher and blogs at rhetoricalthinking.com.