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From: Lionel Bender <lionheart.brw_at_btinternet.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 15:02:35 +0100
By mainstream, I mean the established, household-name publishers. That includes trade and school-and-library publishers. I wholeheartedly agree that trade publishers produce great nonfiction that is, in many respects, far superior in quality than series packages and that should be part of every educator's kit for Common Core. But for many teachers and kids, it is the series packages they want instead or as well as. Many kids don't need to be reluctant readers to want those series packages: Those books serve a different niche and function. Perhaps they are not award-winning books, but they have some important values.
Why teachers don't use the trade books could be because those books are expensive and trade publishers might not give discounts to schools and libraries in the same way that educational publishers do. And possibly because those book require more input from the teacher to bring out their qualities to a typical classroom of kids. But I agree, those great trade nonfiction books should be used by more teachers and purchased for more kids. And if parents and grandparents still buy books for youngsters, or kids buy books for one another, those great trade nonfiction books make great gifts.
Lionel Bender www.brw.co.uk www.childrensNFconference.com
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Received on Mon 09 Jun 2014 09:04:08 AM CDT
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 15:02:35 +0100
By mainstream, I mean the established, household-name publishers. That includes trade and school-and-library publishers. I wholeheartedly agree that trade publishers produce great nonfiction that is, in many respects, far superior in quality than series packages and that should be part of every educator's kit for Common Core. But for many teachers and kids, it is the series packages they want instead or as well as. Many kids don't need to be reluctant readers to want those series packages: Those books serve a different niche and function. Perhaps they are not award-winning books, but they have some important values.
Why teachers don't use the trade books could be because those books are expensive and trade publishers might not give discounts to schools and libraries in the same way that educational publishers do. And possibly because those book require more input from the teacher to bring out their qualities to a typical classroom of kids. But I agree, those great trade nonfiction books should be used by more teachers and purchased for more kids. And if parents and grandparents still buy books for youngsters, or kids buy books for one another, those great trade nonfiction books make great gifts.
Lionel Bender www.brw.co.uk www.childrensNFconference.com
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