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From: Scottish Tea <scottishtea_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:28:54 -0400
Greetings to All,
This is actually my first post on this list. I have been lurking for some time.
1. My favorite Printz Honored Book - Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
How this became my favorite book - I was reading all the winners that year to do a workshop and left this one for last because I am not a real fan of fantasy or science fiction etc... Well, I left the best for last... I like this book so much that - I buy five copies at a time and give it out to anyone looking for a book to read. I have given it to parents, colleagues, adults, and kids and guess what - everyone likes it and have continued reading the serie! Successful readers' advisory.
2. Nonfiction - I found it interested in a previous post that someone mentioned people might find it hard to critique and review nonfiction and they say they love nonfiction - then why can't you review it? Nonfiction is based on facts. Does the author take you on a journey to understand the topic? Do the pictures, illustrations, graphs enlight your experience during the reading of the text? Do you get a sense of what happened? Does it invoke feelings on the topic - positive or negative? Does it make you want to read more on this topic? There is so much you get from your expereince of reading nonfiction. So why is is so hard to review and critique nonfiction? I have a hard time understanding this. Open your mind, step out of your comfort zone, and you will see that to review and critque nonfiction is so much easier than fiction.
3. Common Core - Where to begin? Yes, this is an opportunity for NF to shine. Marc Aronson, Mary Ann Capiello, Myra Zarnowski, Kathleen Odean, and I are working on projects that will help this happen. From blogs, to articles, to webinars, to web site, to workshops etc... Our first project is starting to take shape with a $25,000 award of a IMLS Sparks grant to develop a web-based, searchable resource for high-quality, K-12 nonfiction resources. We worked this summer to develop criteria that helps identify in more depth how the author's writing style presents and works in a specific piece of nonficiton. The next step - our work is now going to our database developer this week. More news and information as it becomes available.
Our goal is to provide a place to find nonfiction and how you can use it with your students, in your classroom, or just to read and enjoy. The project is jointly sponsored by my School Library System at Erie 2-Chautauqua, Cattaraugus BOCES in New York with partners of the other four western New York School Library Systems - Buffalo City, Catt-All, Erie 1 BOCES, and Orleans/Niagara.
Sue Bartle sbartle_at_e2ccb.org
Received on Tue 21 Aug 2012 01:28:54 PM CDT
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:28:54 -0400
Greetings to All,
This is actually my first post on this list. I have been lurking for some time.
1. My favorite Printz Honored Book - Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
How this became my favorite book - I was reading all the winners that year to do a workshop and left this one for last because I am not a real fan of fantasy or science fiction etc... Well, I left the best for last... I like this book so much that - I buy five copies at a time and give it out to anyone looking for a book to read. I have given it to parents, colleagues, adults, and kids and guess what - everyone likes it and have continued reading the serie! Successful readers' advisory.
2. Nonfiction - I found it interested in a previous post that someone mentioned people might find it hard to critique and review nonfiction and they say they love nonfiction - then why can't you review it? Nonfiction is based on facts. Does the author take you on a journey to understand the topic? Do the pictures, illustrations, graphs enlight your experience during the reading of the text? Do you get a sense of what happened? Does it invoke feelings on the topic - positive or negative? Does it make you want to read more on this topic? There is so much you get from your expereince of reading nonfiction. So why is is so hard to review and critique nonfiction? I have a hard time understanding this. Open your mind, step out of your comfort zone, and you will see that to review and critque nonfiction is so much easier than fiction.
3. Common Core - Where to begin? Yes, this is an opportunity for NF to shine. Marc Aronson, Mary Ann Capiello, Myra Zarnowski, Kathleen Odean, and I are working on projects that will help this happen. From blogs, to articles, to webinars, to web site, to workshops etc... Our first project is starting to take shape with a $25,000 award of a IMLS Sparks grant to develop a web-based, searchable resource for high-quality, K-12 nonfiction resources. We worked this summer to develop criteria that helps identify in more depth how the author's writing style presents and works in a specific piece of nonficiton. The next step - our work is now going to our database developer this week. More news and information as it becomes available.
Our goal is to provide a place to find nonfiction and how you can use it with your students, in your classroom, or just to read and enjoy. The project is jointly sponsored by my School Library System at Erie 2-Chautauqua, Cattaraugus BOCES in New York with partners of the other four western New York School Library Systems - Buffalo City, Catt-All, Erie 1 BOCES, and Orleans/Niagara.
Sue Bartle sbartle_at_e2ccb.org
Received on Tue 21 Aug 2012 01:28:54 PM CDT
