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Does Nonfiction Equate Truth?

Rethinking Disciplinary Boundaries through Critical Literacy

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Does Nonfiction Equate Truth?

Rethinking Disciplinary Boundaries through Critical Literacy

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Description

Educators who teach children’s literature at the college level as part of the pre-service experience seldom allocate enough space in the curriculum for nonfiction literature. This book recognizes the viability of nonfiction as a literary genre that demands critical analysis, celebrates storytelling in its varied forms, and invites teacher educators and pre-service teachers, our primary audience, to nurture a spirit of inquiry and skepticism in the classroom. It is an excellent resource for teacher educators looking for a variety of nonfiction texts to include in their literacy curriculum at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. It also offers critical approaches through which students are encouraged to read these texts, and ideas for critical inquiry with young learners.

Table of Contents

List of Tables
Foreword:Kathy G. Short
Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Why Critical Conversations on Nonfiction Texts for Children?
Vivian Yenika-Agbaw

Chapter 2:Defining and Describing Expository Literature
Melissa Stewart and Terrell A. Young

Chapter 3:Using Nonfiction to Motivate Students: Classroom Engagements
Elizabeth Raff

Chapter 4:Teaching Young Readers Using Nonfiction Texts
Xenia Hadjioannou and Nancy Rankie Shelton

Chapter 5:Critical Questions about Photographic “Truths” in Children’s Nonfiction Books
Laura Anne Hudock

Chapter 6:Science Inquiry in a Fifth Grade Classroom
Shanetia Clark and Vincent Genareo

Chapter 7:Engaging Young Adolescents through Science
L. J. Phillips and Marnie Woodley

Chapter 8:Engaging Students in Conversations about Mathematical “Truths”
Deanna Day and Barbara A. Ward

Chapter 9:Some Nonfiction Resources for Engaging in Critical Conversations
Chris Landauer, Cheryl Logan, and René Rodríguez-Astacio

Contributors’ Biography

Product details

Published Mar 15 2018
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 140
ISBN 9781475842319
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Vivian Yenika-Agbaw

Anthology Editor

Laura Anne Hudock

Anthology Editor

Ruth McKoy Lowery

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