Books

Learning with Literature in the Canadian Elementary Classroom

Joyce Bainbridge, Sylvia Joyce Pantaleo

Grade level: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, k, p, e, i, t.

The Routledge Companion to World Literary Journalism

John S. Bak, Bill Reynolds

This cutting-edge research companion addresses our current understanding of literary journalism’s global scope and evolution, offering an immersive study of how different nations have experimented with and perfected the narrative journalistic form/genre over time. The Routledge Companion to World Literary Journalism demonstrates the genre’s rich genealogy and global impact through a comprehensive study of its many traditions, including the crónica, the ocherk, reportage, the New Journalism, the New New Journalism, Jornalismo literário, periodismo narrativo, bao gao wen xue, creative nonfiction, Literarischer Journalismus, As-SaHafa al Adabiyya, and literary nonfiction. Contributions from a diverse range of established and emerging scholars explore key issues such as the current role of literary journalism in countries radically affected by the print media crisis and the potential future of literary journalism, both as a centerpiece to print media writ large and as an academic discipline universally recognized around the world. The book also discusses literary journalism's responses to war, immigration, and censorship; its many female and Indigenous authors; and its digital footprints on the internet. This extensive and authoritative collection is a vital resource for academics and researchers in literary journalism studies, as well as in journalism studies and literature in general. Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

From Me to We

Using Narrative Nonfiction to Broaden Student Perspectives

Jason Griffith

With this practical book, you’ll learn effective ways to engage students in reading and writing by teaching them narrative nonfiction. By engaging adolescents in narrative, literary, or creative nonfiction, they can cultivate a greater understanding of themselves, the world around them, and what it means to feel empathy for others. This book will guide you to first structure a reading unit around a narrative nonfiction text, and then develop lessons and activities for students to craft their own personal essays. Topics include: Engaging your students in the reading of a nonfiction narrative with collaborative chapter notes, empathy check-ins, and a mini-research paper to deepen students’ understanding; Helping your students identify meaningful life events, recount their experiences creatively, and construct effective opening and closing lines for their personal essays; Encouraging your students to use dialogue, outside research, and a clear plot structure to make their narrative nonfiction more compelling and polished. The strategies in this book are supplemented by examples of student work and snapshots from the author’s own classroom. The book also includes interviews with narrative nonfiction writers MK Asante and Johanna Bear. The appendices offer additional tips for using narrative nonfiction in English class, text and online resources for teaching narrative nonfiction, and a correlation chart between the activities in this book and the Common Core Standards.

Writing Strategies for Talent Development

From Struggling to Gifted Learners, Grades 3–8

Jennifer Gottschalk

Writing Strategies for Talent Development helps educators incorporate effective and engaging writing strategies into their classroom that are designed to reach struggling and gifted students alike. This guide demonstrates how teachers can provide the means to write (with appropriate tools and classroom structures), the motivation to write (through engaging genre-based lessons), and the opportunity to write more frequently across multiple subjects. Covering genres from fantasy, crime, and humor, to horror, non-fiction, and even romance, this book provides the tools to support every writer in the room.

Genre-Based Strategies to Promote Critical Literacy in Grades 4–8

Danielle E. Sachdeva, Sue C. Kimmel

Draws on critical and radical change theory to equip both aspiring and practicing library and teacher candidates with practical, research-based ideas for enacting critical literacy practices in middle grade libraries and classrooms. Genre Based Strategies to Promote Critical Literacy in Grades 4-8 provides strategies and lesson plans with additional resources and tools for school librarians and teachers to engage middle grade students in reading children's literature through a critical literacy lens. To be critically literate readers and thinkers, students must learn to question what they read, asking themselves who wrote the text, why the text was written, and how the text positions its readers and others. Teaching students how to read from a critical literacy stance is a timely and relevant practice in a world in which text is available instantly and on nearly any mobile device. In many cases, preparation programs for school librarians and teachers do not teach candidates how to incorporate critical literacy practices in library and classroom settings. This book provides both pre-service and in-service school librarians and teachers with that professional development and guidance for teaching critical literacy in children's literature courses.

The Children’s Literature Selection Handbook, K–8

Christie Kaaland

Offering future school librarians, teachers, and working librarians an alternative to lengthier textbooks on children's literature, this engaging book introduces readers to the most important genres and current conversations in the field while leaving them time to read children's literature directly. As school librarian and teacher certification programs become more abridged, students require succinct textbooks that still provide a valuable introduction to the field. Working librarians need reference books that allow them to make good selections for their collections. Students and professionals will appreciate The Children's Literature Selection Handbook, K–8 because it offers a needed overview of the field while allowing for plenty of time to read children's literature. Author Christie Kaaland's conversational tone speaks directly to readers, and the book offers students a pathway to engage with literature directly and effectively scaffold their learning. Beginning with an introduction to standard literary fiction genres, including a discussion of literature trends and children's reading interests and needs, the chapters turn to the most important genres: fiction, biography, folk literature, picture books, informational texts, poetry, and graphic novels. A focus on book series, a deep discussion of graphic novels, the inclusion of global literature and review sources for selection, and information on publishers and the publishing industry set this timely book apart from others in the field. Reader voices add perspective and charm. This compact and engaging book is the perfect companion to the vast wealth of children's literature that future teachers and school librarians will read during their professional preparation and share with children and youth as working librarians.

Tell Them a Story

Using Narrative Nonfiction in Your Everyday Writing

Ben Riggs

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Writing Notable Narrative Nonfiction

Sue Vander Hook

Have you ever wanted to write a true story? Maybe you have an interesting experience to share from your life or from someone in your family. Or perhaps you'd like to write about a famous person or a fascinating moment in history. This book will help you craft notable narrative nonfiction—appealing true stories. After you discover a topic, you'll move on to collecting facts and charting your course. Once you've written a rough draft, you'll learn how to revise your work and polish it into a great piece of writing. This book also offers examples, quotes, and short writing exercises to inspire you. Whether your goal is to tell your own story or someone else's, this book will help you bring the details to life.

Reading Comprehension Fundamentals, Grade 4

Evan-Moor Educational Publishers

Help your students improve their reading comprehension with this focused approach! Reading Comprehension Fundamentals provides tools to target the reading skills and strategies with which students need the most help.

How to Sell, Then Write Your Nonfiction Book

Blythe Camenson

From idea to contract to execution, this is a guide for prospective nonfiction writers. It aims to help you sell your ideas or yourself before you invest time and effort in a lengthy book project. It provides specific tips for pitching and writing various nonfiction categories, with suggestions from agents, editors, and published authors.

Keep It Real: Everything You Need to Know About Researching and Writing Creative Nonfiction

Lee Gutkind

"Keep It Real" begins by defining creative nonfiction and goes on to explore the flexibility of the form--the liberties and the boundaries that allow writers to be as truthful, factual, and artful as possible.

Encounter: Narrative Nonfiction Picture Books

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Encounter: Narrative Nonfiction Picture Books

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Readers remember information best when it's told as a story. Encounter Books use powerful storytelling techniques to share nonfiction content in an engaging, captivating way. Don't just read. Encounter the stories in your world. Meets state standards for character and story studies and fulfills the need for a wide range of text types.

Telling the Story

How to Write and Sell Narrative Nonfiction

Peter Rubie

Some of the best selling novels over the years--including In Cold Blood, All the President's Men, and Black Hawk Down--have something in common: they are true stories. This book teaches writers how to blend journalistic research with narrative techniques to produce works of nonfiction that read like novels. Rubie (a former BBC journalist) covers researching, writing, and selling narrative nonfiction; finding a subject; creating the skeleton of a book; and dealing with proposals, agents, and self-promotion. The book includes insight and interviews from top authors, agents, and editors including Peter Gethers (Random House) and Jack Hart (The Oregonian). Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Nonfiction

Christina Boufis

Get all the tools you need to craft compelling creative nonfiction prose. This helpful guide gives you everything you need to write real-life characters, compelling plots, natural dialogue, and captivating details.

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Writer's Guide to Book Editors, Publishers, and Literary Agents, 2003-2004

Who They Are! What They Want! And How to Win Them Over!

Jeff Herman

The Key to Unlocking Your Writing Success This ultimate writer's reference connects you to who's who in the publishing industry. Inside, you'll find the names, addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail and Web addresses for hundreds of top editors and agents, plus essays from industry insiders who reveal the secrets to big-time success. With the most up-to-date information on an industry that's constantly changing, this new edition offers everything you need to get past the slush piles and into the hands of the real players in the publishing field, including how to write attention-grabbing book proposals and thrive off rejection. Now, you hold the keys to getting published.

Storycraft, Second Edition

The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction

Jack Hart

Jack Hart, master writing coach and former managing editor of The Oregonian, has guided several Pulitzer Prize-winning narratives to publication. Since its publication in 2011, his book Storycraft has become the definitive guide to crafting narrative nonfiction. This is the book to read to learn the art of storytelling as embodied in the work of writers such as David Grann, Mary Roach, Tracy Kidder, and John McPhee. In this new edition, Hart has expanded the book's range to delve into podcasting and has incorporated new insights from recent research into storytelling and the brain. He has also added dozens of new examples that illustrate effective narrative nonfiction. This edition of Storycraft is also paired with Wordcraft, a new incarnation of Hart's earlier book A Writer's Coach, now also available from Chicago.