Exploring Nonfiction Literacies (eBook)

Innovative Practices in Classrooms

Laura Anne Hudock, Ruth McKoy Lowery, Paul H. Ricks, Vivian Yenika-Agbaw (Herausgeber)

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2018
140 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4758-4343-9 (ISBN)

Infos

The book discusses how learners might be guided to interact with texts in a creative but critically engaged and sustainable manner.

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This book recognizes nonfiction text as a staple part of the literacy curriculum and advocates that educators include it in their daily practices. It offers innovative ideas on how these texts can be used to nurture literacy acquisition, growth, and fluency in and out of the classroom.

Autor

Vivian Yenika-Agbaw is professor of children’s literature and literacy at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park. She teaches courses on children’s and adolescent literature.Ruth McKoy Lowery is professor of literacy and associate chair of the Department of Teaching and Learning at The Ohio State University. She teaches courses on children's literature and literacy education.Laura Anne Hudock is a PhD Candidate in Curriculum and Instruction at The Pennsylvania State University, where she instructs pre-service teachers in Children’s Literature, Reading, and Language Arts courses.Paul H. Ricks is a doctoral candidate in Curriculum and Instruction at The Pennsylvania State University, where he currently teaches children’s literature courses.

Inhalt

List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction- Critical Thinkers and Innovative PracticesVivian Yenika-Agbaw and Ruth McKoy LoweryChapter 1- Exploring the Universe of Facts: Outstanding Nonfiction and BiographiesDeborah ThompsonChapter 2- Picture Book Biographies as Mentor TextsLeslie Colabucci, and Vivian Yenika-AgbawChapter 3- Mirrors and Windows for All: Nonfiction Picture Books as Tools for Understanding DisabilitiesPatricia A. Crawford, and Kaybeth CalabriaChapter 4- Challenging Gifted and Talented Readers with Nonfiction TextsMargot Dickey and Laura Anne HudockChapter 5- Nonfiction Instruction for English Language Learners Xiaodi Zhou and Danling FuChapter 6- Differentiating and Promoting Critical Thinking with Nonfiction Multimodal Text SetsDanielle Hartsfield and Nicole MaxwellChapter 7- Creating an Appealing and Usable Classroom Library of High Quality Diverse Nonfiction TextsCuthbert Roland-StormConclusion- A Few Thoughts on Using Nonfiction Texts in the 21st Century ClassroomPaul H. RicksAbout the EditorsAbout the Contributors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.7.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 21 Illustrations including: - 2 Black & White Illustrations; - 1 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 11 Tables; - 7 Text Boxes.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
• Schlagworte: Biographies • Children's literature • Classroom management • Content Area Literacies • critical literacy • Disabilities • Elementary School • High School • Language Arts • literature across curriculum • Mentor Texts • middle school • Multimodal • Nonfiction • picture books • professional development
• ISBN-10: 1-4758-4343-7 / 1475843437
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4758-4343-9 / 9781475843439