From: Anastasia Suen <asuen_at_asuen.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:16:49 -0500

Yes, what teachers do all day is work with facts, and that's nonfiction. Those are "real" stories. So many teachers think that "literature" is only fiction, but a story is a story. And new ones come out everyday.

I shared your new book, Marc - If Stones Could Speak: Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge - at a teacher inservice last month. I told them it was narrative nonfiction, and it was also what they ask their students to write every year when school starts - the "What I Did Over Summer Vacation" story. A story is a story...

(I'm collecting links to other nonfiction stories for children today - as the host for this week's Nonfiction Monday. And next week, some one else will host Nonfiction Monday on their blog. There are lots of real stories are out there - and we share them every Monday.) http://wp.me/pWySC-5d

:-) Anastasia

Anastasia Suen * Author, Consultant, Teacher http://www.asuen.com/ * http://twitter.com/asuen1

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 6:14 AM, wrote:

nonfiction both gains and suffers from the fact that every single young person in America is exposed to nonfiction subjects every day -- in school.
Received on Mon 11 Oct 2010 01:16:49 PM CDT