CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS

Pre-Reading, Reading, Rereading: An Approach to Teaching Novels

Vladimir Nabokov once commented that a ‘good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader’. Taking this proposition as our starting point, this workshop will outline an approach to studying novels that revolves around three phases: pre-reading, reading, and rereading. For each phase, we’ll discuss how it works and exactly what it might look like in the English classroom. This will involve covering a variety of novel-specific teaching strategies, all geared towards making the novel reading process as enjoyable and intellectually rich as possible, privileging, as we do so, genuine student response and resonance.

Aimed at Seconday school teachers.