Teaching Literature as Reflective Practice

From an reader: To describe just example of what the book offers, I love what Kathleen Blake Yancey writes about teaching students to lean into what they don't understand about the texts they read, transforming not understanding into "not-understanding," developing a lack of understanding into an articulation of what it is that one does not understand, which is actually a whole lot closer to comprehension than it is to confusion: "Not-understanding is not an absence, but rather an acquired art. As students learn, articulating what they don't understand is a critical first move toward a fuller, more complex understanding" (45). Beautiful!