{"product_id":"9781571109736","title":"Caring Hearts and Critical Minds","description":"\u003cp\u003eImagine if going to school meant more than preparing kids for a test,  teaching a canned curriculum, and training students for their future as  workers. What if school were also about cultivating students to be  caring, community-involved citizens and critical, creative thinkers who  love to read?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCaring Hearts \u0026amp; Critical Minds\u003c\/i\u003e,  teacher-author Steven Wolk shows teachers how to help students become  better readers as well as better people. \"I want [my students] to be  thinkers and have rich conversations regarding critical issues in the  text and be able to formulate opinions regarding these issues,\" says  Leslie Rector, a sixth-grade teacher who collaborated with Wolk on some  of the units featured in this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWolk demonstrates how to  integrate inquiry learning, exciting and contemporary literature, and  teaching for social responsibility across the curriculum. He takes  teachers step-by-step through the process of designing an inquiry-based  literature unit and then provides five full units used in real  middle-grade classrooms. Featuring a remarkable range of recommended  resources and hundreds of novels from across the literary genres, \u003ci\u003eCaring Hearts \u0026amp; Critical Minds\u003c\/i\u003e  gives teachers a blueprint for creating dynamic units with rigorous  lessons about topics kids care about—from media and the environment to  personal happiness and global poverty.  Wolk shows teachers how to find  stimulating, real-world \"complex texts\" called for in the Common Core  State Standards and integrate them into literature units.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I  know from experience that a great book changes the reader,\" says Karen  Tellez, an eighth-grade teacher featured in the book. “For me, books  have helped me escape, fall in love, recover from heartbreak, and have  broken open my mind from the age of twelve. . . . I hope [my students]  gain better reading comprehension, confidence as readers, connections to  the characters and events, a curiosity for the world, and tolerance for  others.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaring Hearts \u0026amp; Critical Minds \u003c\/i\u003eshows teachers how to turn these hopes and goals into reality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stenhouse Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47157156511984,"sku":"9781571109736","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781571109736_p0.jpg?v=1763767865","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781571109736","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}