Disrupting Thinking is, at its heart, an exploration of how we help students become the reader who does so much more than decode, recall, or choose the correct answer from a multiple-choice list. This reader is responsive, aware of her feelings and thoughts as the text brings them forth. She is responsible, reflecting honestly about what the writer has offered and how she has reacted, willing either to hold fast or to change, as reason and evidence dictate. And she is compassionate, willing to imagine, possibly to feel, always to think about what others—author, characters, and other
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