Table of Contents

• Part 1: Facilitating Literature Study
• Chapter 1: Developing Critical Literacy through Basketball, Barriers, and Books
• Chapter 2: Beneath the Surface: Ideologies of Multicultural Sports Literature
• Chapter 3: Mapping the Emotional Lives of Characters in The Scorpio Races
• Chapter 4: The Games People Play: Gatsby and the Golden Age of Sports
• Part 2: Providing Alternatives to Traditional Novels
• Chapter 5: Baseball and Graphic Novels: An Effective Approach to Teaching Literature
• Chapter 6: Ball Is Life
• Or Is It? Examining Thematic Perspectives of Basketball in Poetry
• Chapter 7: In the Spotlight: Using Aesthetic Experiences to Unpack “Amigo Brothers”
• Chapter 8: Power, Authorship, and Identity in Texts by and about High-Profile Athletes
• Part 3: Teaching Writing
• Chapter 9: Writing Sports Fiction to Build Empathy and Understanding
• Chapter 10: Cards with Classmates: Writing and Presenting through Trading Cards
• Chapter 11: Teamwork: Collaborative Engagement with Sports Argumentation
• Chapter 12: A Flair for Sports: Teaching Journalistic Writing Using a 3-2-1 Column Approach
• Part 4: Engaging Students in Inquiry and Research
• Chapter 13: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner: Thematic Comparisons across Media
• Chapter 14: “Reel” Stories vs
• “Real” Stories: Uncovering Sports History Fact and Fiction
• Chapter 15: Searching and Synthesizing: Researching Cultural Context in Sports
• Chapter 16: Is Skateboarding a Sport? Inquiring into Nonschool Sports
• Part 5: Fostering Media and Digital Literacies
• Chapter 17: Replicating Research as a Pathway to Digital Literacy Learning
• Chapter 18: Telling Our Own Stories: Using Documentary Film to Profile School Sports Narratives
• Chapter 19: Podcasting Responses to Social Issues in Sports and Popular Culture
• Chapter 20: Satiric Remixes: Crafting Commentaries about Sport and Society
• Part 6: Promoting Social Justice
• Chapter 21: Exploring Racial Stereotypes through Sports-Related Film
• Chapter 22: Disability and Athletics: (Re)Defining “Typical”
• Chapter 23: Using YAL to Interrogate the Heteronormative, Transphobic Culture of School Sports
• Chapter 24: Rewriting for Justice: Breaking Down Bullying in Openly Straight
• Part 7: Developing Out-of-School Literacies
• Chapter 25: Being the Expert: Recognizing and Developing Students’ Insider Sports Knowledge
• Chapter 26: Promoting Democracy through Sports, Community, and Dialogue with The Crossover
• Chapter 27: eSports as We-Sports: Exploring Writing Practices through Videogaming
• Chapter 28: Inside Athletes’ Writing: The Words behind the Wins (and Losses).

About the Author

Alan Brown is an assistant professor of English education in the Department of Education at Wake Forest University.

Luke Rodesiler, a former high school English teacher and coach, is an assistant professor of secondary education at Purdue University Fort Wayne.