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From: Megan Schliesman <schliesman_at_education.wisc.edu>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 10:38:14 -0500
Deborah Hopkinson mentioning "The Hive Detectives" reminded me of a story I heard from a reading specialist last fall, who told about a 7^th grade science teacher at her school who builds an entire integrated unit around that book. The students are wholly engaged with reading and research and projects that build from that one work.
Maybe it comes down to individual teaching styles, and curricular goals, and preferences, not to mention resources available, but I suspect that too much of the terrific non-fiction already out there is not getting into the hands, and therefore the hearts and minds, of enough teachers.
On another note (no pun intended), I think I already mentioned my CCBC colleague Merri Lindgren and I sometimes have to keep ourselves from saying as much about the author's note as the main book when we booktalk some titles.We love getting insight into the process an author went through in making decisions, especially when navigating conflicting or incomplete information in a work of non-fiction, or using history as the launching point for fiction. We also think this information can be invaluable to children when it comes not only to understanding something about the creative process, but also critical thinking. It was especially intriguing to us in the context of books for younger readers, and so we created a bibliography (soon to be updated): Between Fact and Fiction:
http://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/books/detailListBooks.asp?idBookLists=603
Megan
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 10:38:14 -0500
Deborah Hopkinson mentioning "The Hive Detectives" reminded me of a story I heard from a reading specialist last fall, who told about a 7^th grade science teacher at her school who builds an entire integrated unit around that book. The students are wholly engaged with reading and research and projects that build from that one work.
Maybe it comes down to individual teaching styles, and curricular goals, and preferences, not to mention resources available, but I suspect that too much of the terrific non-fiction already out there is not getting into the hands, and therefore the hearts and minds, of enough teachers.
On another note (no pun intended), I think I already mentioned my CCBC colleague Merri Lindgren and I sometimes have to keep ourselves from saying as much about the author's note as the main book when we booktalk some titles.We love getting insight into the process an author went through in making decisions, especially when navigating conflicting or incomplete information in a work of non-fiction, or using history as the launching point for fiction. We also think this information can be invaluable to children when it comes not only to understanding something about the creative process, but also critical thinking. It was especially intriguing to us in the context of books for younger readers, and so we created a bibliography (soon to be updated): Between Fact and Fiction:
http://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/books/detailListBooks.asp?idBookLists=603
Megan
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