This book draws upon a queer literacy framework to map out examples for teaching literacy across pre-K-12 schooling. To date, there are no comprehensive Pre-K-12 texts for literacy teacher educators and theorists to use to show successful models of how practicing classroom teachers affirm differential (a)gender bodied realities across curriculum and schooling practices. This book aims to highlight how these enactments can be made readily conscious to teachers as a reminder that gender normativity has established violent and unstable social and educational climates for the millennial generation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, (a)gender/(a)sexual, gender creative, and questioning youth.

Presents the first collection of models, driven by queer theory, for pre-K-12 literacy education

1. Introduction: The Role of Recognition2. Why a Queer Literacy Framework Matters: Models for Sustaining (A)Gender Self-Determination and Justice in Today's Schooling Practices3. Teaching Our Teachers: Trans* and Gender Education in Teacher Preparation and Professional Development4. Kindergartners Studying Trans* Issues Through I Am Jazz5. Beyond This or That: Challenging the Limits of Binary Language in Elementary Education Through Poetry, Word Art, and Creative Bookmarking6. The Teacher as a Text: Un-centering Normative Gender Identities in the Secondary English Language Arts Classroom7. The T* in LGBT*: Disrupting Gender Normative School Culture Through Young Adult Literature8. Risks and Resiliency: Trans* Students in the Rural South9. Introducing (A)gender into Foreign/Second Language Education10. Exploring Gender Through Ash in the Secondary English Classroom11. Transitional Memories: Reading Using a Queer Cultural Capital Model12. Trans* Young Adult Literature for Secondary English Classrooms: Authors Speak Out13. Puncturing the Silence: Teaching The Laramie Project in the Secondary English Classroom14. Making Space for Unsanctioned Texts: Teachers and Students Collaborate to Trans*form Writing Assignments15. Using Queer Pedagogy and Theory to Teach Shakespeare's Twelfth Night16. The Nonconclusion: Trans*ing Education in the Future- This Cannot Wait