Power, Brenda Miller

Includes: Personal Literacy -- Changing Concepts of Literacy -- Literacy in Classrooms -- Final Reflections.

Provides practical tips for teachers on writing assessments of student work, including report cards and longer narratives, covering beginnings and endings, details, and ways to save time when assessing a great number of students, such as in middle or high school.

Contains seventeen essays resulting from the 1996 "Reading Stephen King" conference hosted by the University of Maine, exploring various aspects of the key themes of the conference, including the role of choice in adolescent reading programs; ways to use popular literature in youth reading programs; and censorship cases based on King's work.