Exploring Informational Texts
Exploring Informational Texts

Author: Linda Hoyt

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13:

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This guide for teachers describes strategies for helping children in grades K-8 to become comfortable with and get the most out of nonfiction texts. Written by teachers and teacher educators, 25 contributions discuss such topics as the use of informational texts in daily instruction and the role that features such as captions and headings play in learner understanding. A number of guided reading and writing exercises also are presented.

Critical Survey of Graphic Novels
Critical Survey of Graphic Novels

Author: Bart Beaty

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 1063

ISBN-13: 9781682179147

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"This new edition of Critical Survey of Graphic Novels: Independents & Underground Classics offers over 215 essays covering graphic novels and core comics series, focusing on the independents and underground genre that form today's canon for academic coursework and library collections. Critical Survey of Graphic Novels series aims to collect the preeminent graphic novels and core comics series that form today's canon for academic coursework and library collection development, offering clear, concise, and accessible analysis of not only the historic and current landscape of the interdisciplinary medium and its consumption, but the wide range of genres, themes, devices, and techniques that the graphic novel medium encompasses."--Provided by publisher.

Reading Nonfiction
Reading Nonfiction

Author: G. Kylene Beers

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780325050805

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"Nonfiction intrudes into our world and purports to tell the truth. To evaluate that truth, we need students to be sophisticated, skillful, and savvy readers. And that's why Kylene and Bob wrote Reading Nonfiction, a book that presents: 3 big questions that develop the stance needed for attentive reading; 5 signposts that help readers analyze and evaluate the author's craft; and 7 strategies that develop relevance and fix up confusions"--Back cover.