Does Nonfiction Equate Truth? (eBook, ePUB)

Rethinking Disciplinary Boundaries through Critical Literacy
Redaktion: Yenika-Agbaw, Vivian; Lowery, Ruth McKoy; Hudock, Laura Anne

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Educators who teach children's literature at the college level as part of the pre-service experience seldom allocate enough space in the curriculum for nonfiction literature. This book recognizes the viability of nonfiction as a literary genre that demands critical analysis, celebrates storytelling in its varied forms, and invites teacher educators and pre-service teachers, our primary audience, to nurture a spirit of inquiry and skepticism in the classroom. It is an excellent resource for teacher educators looking for a variety of nonfiction texts to include in their literacy curriculum at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. It also offers critical approaches through which students are encouraged to read these texts, and ideas for critical inquiry with young learners.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781475842319
• Artikelnr.: 51582222

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables
Foreword:Kathy G. Short
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Why Critical Conversations on Nonfiction Texts for Children?
Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
Chapter 2:Defining and Describing Expository Literature
Melissa Stewart and Terrell A. Young
Chapter 3:Using Nonfiction to Motivate Students: Classroom Engagements
Elizabeth Raff
Chapter 4:Teaching Young Readers Using Nonfiction Texts
Xenia Hadjioannou and Nancy Rankie Shelton
Chapter 5:Critical Questions about Photographic "Truths" in Children's
Nonfiction Books
Laura Anne Hudock
Chapter 6:Science Inquiry in a Fifth Grade Classroom
Shanetia Clark and Vincent Genareo
Chapter 7:Engaging Young Adolescents through Science
L. J. Phillips and Marnie Woodley
Chapter 8:Engaging Students in Conversations about Mathematical "Truths"
Deanna Day and Barbara A. Ward
Chapter 9:Some Nonfiction Resources for Engaging in Critical Conversations
Chris Landauer, Cheryl Logan, and René Rodríguez-Astacio
Contributors' Biography