Curriculum Connections Reading and Teaching with Diverse Nonfiction Children’s Books Representations and Possibilities Thomas Crisp, Suzanne M. Knezek, and Roberta Price Gardner, editors This edited collection brings together ongoing professional conversations about diverse children’s books and the role and function of nonfiction and informational text in K–8 classrooms. At a time in which truth, science, and reality are under attack, this volume challenges the fields of children’s literature and education to evolve, expand, and divest from the selective tradition and limited literary canons. Each chapter features an overview of relevant texts, criteria for selecting and evaluating nonfiction literature, practical pedagogical strategies, connections to primary sources, and a description of our contemporary context alongside arguments for why it is essential that educators include this literature in their classrooms, curricula, and libraries. 292 pp. | 2021 | Grades K–8 | ISBN 9780814139974 $30.36 member/$37.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814139981
50 Award-Winning Children’s Book Authors Share the Secret of Engaging Writing Melissa Stewart, editor In Nonfiction Writers Dig Deep, some of today’s most celebrated writers for children share essays that describe a critical part of the informational writing process that is often left out of classroom instruction. To craft engaging nonfiction, professional writers choose topics that fascinate them and explore concepts and themes that reflect their passions, personalities, beliefs, and experiences in the world. By scrutinizing the information they collect to make their own personal meaning, they create distinctive books that delight as well as inform. In addition to essays from mentor authors, the book includes a wide range of tips, tools, teaching strategies, and activity ideas from editor Melissa Stewart to help students (1) choose a topic, (2) focus that topic by identifying a core idea, theme, or concept, and (3) analyze their research to find a personal connection. By adding a piece of themselves to their drafts, students will learn to craft rich, unique prose. 190 pp. | 2020 | Grades K–12 | ISBN 9780814133521 $27.96 member/$34.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814133545
Making Curriculum Pop Developing Literacies in All Content Areas Pam Goble and Ryan R. Goble From body art to baseball cards, comics to cathedrals, pie charts to power ballads . . . students need help navigating today’s media-rich world. And educators need help teaching today’s new media literacy. To be literate now means being able to read, write, listen, speak, view, and represent across all media—including both print and nonprint texts, such as film, TV, podcasts, websites, visual art, fashion, architecture, landscape, and music. This book offers secondary teachers in all content areas a flexible, interdisciplinary approach to integrate these literacies into their curriculum. Students form cooperative learning groups to evaluate media texts from various perspectives (artist, producer, sociologist, sound mixer, economist, poet, set designer, and more) and show their thinking using unique graphic organizers aligned to the Common Core State Standards. Digital content includes full-color reproducible student forms. Free Spirit Publishing and NCTE 213 pp. | 2016 | Grades 6–12 | ISBN 9781631980619 $39.99 member/nonmember
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The Power of Picture Books Using Content Area Literature in Middle School Mary Jo Fresch and Peggy Harkins Picture books aren’t just for little kids. They are powerful and engaging texts that can help all middle school students succeed in language arts, math, science, social studies, and the arts. Picture books appeal to students of all readiness levels, interests, and learning styles. Featuring descriptions and activities for fifty exceptional titles, Mary Jo Fresch and Peggy Harkins offer a wealth of ideas for harnessing the power of picture books to improve reading and writing in the content areas. By incorporating picture books into the classroom, teachers across the disciplines can introduce new topics into their curriculum, help students develop nonfiction literacy skills, provide authentic and meaningful cultural perspectives, and help meet a wide range of learning needs. 147 pp. | 2009 | Grades 5–8 | ISBN 9780814136331 $23.96 member/$29.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814136317
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