Text guided literacy: Literature as experience in English class

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Dr. Anthony Johnston, associate professor of education at University of St. Joseph explains text guided literacy as a framework for teaching literature. A former English teacher, Dr. Johnston resists the current emphasis on close reading. Text guided literacy encourages readers to extrapolate from the text, to take the perspective of a fictional or historical character, and to make...