Exploring Nonfiction Literacies (eBook, ePUB)

Innovative Practices in Classrooms
Redaktion: Yenika-Agbaw, Vivian; Ricks, Paul H.; Hudock, Laura Anne; Lowery, Ruth McKoy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781475843439
• Artikelnr.: 52910153

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. Paul H. Ricks is a doctoral candidate in Curriculum and Instruction at The Pennsylvania State University, where he currently teaches children's literature courses.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction- Critical Thinkers and Innovative Practices
Vivian Yenika-Agbaw and Ruth McKoy Lowery
Chapter 1- Exploring the Universe of Facts: Outstanding Nonfiction and
Biographies
Deborah Thompson
Chapter 2- Picture Book Biographies as Mentor Texts
Leslie Colabucci, and Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
Chapter 3- Mirrors and Windows for All: Nonfiction Picture Books as Tools
for Understanding Disabilities
Patricia A. Crawford, and Kaybeth Calabria
Chapter 4- Challenging Gifted and Talented Readers with Nonfiction Texts
Margot Dickey and Laura Anne Hudock
Chapter 5- Nonfiction Instruction for English Language Learners
Xiaodi Zhou and Danling Fu
Chapter 6- Differentiating and Promoting Critical Thinking with Nonfiction
Multimodal Text Sets
Danielle Hartsfield and Nicole Maxwell
Chapter 7- Creating an Appealing and Usable Classroom Library of High
Quality Diverse Nonfiction Texts
Cuthbert Roland-Storm
Conclusion- A Few Thoughts on Using Nonfiction Texts in the 21st Century
Classroom
Paul H. Ricks
About the Editors
About the Contributors