The Well-Read Game - (Playful Thinking) by Tracy Fullerton & Matthew Farber (Paperback)

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About the Book "This book is about a distinctly new approach to using games in classrooms, one that focuses on the way in which they can act as multimodal texts that engage players - specifically adolescent students - in learning around universal themes and rich literary experiences"-- Book Synopsis How players evoke personal and subjective meanings through a new theory of player response. In The Well-Read Game, Tracy Fullerton and Matthew Farber explore the experiences we have when we play games: not the outcomes of play or the aesthetics of formal game structures but the ephemeral and emotional experiences of being in play. These are the private stories we tell ourselves as we play, the q…