Literature-Based Reading Activities: Engaging Students with Literary and Informational Text

Literature-Based Reading Activities: Engaging Students with Literary and Informational Text

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<P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <I>Literature-Based Reading Activities: Engaging Students with Literary and Informational Text </I>is the ideal resource for pre-service and in-service teachers looking for practical help and exciting classroom activities for ensuring all students have successful interactions with literature. Brief and inexpensive, it is widely appreciated for its numerous activities, unique discussions of the theoretical and research bases supporting all of the activities, and the variety of grade levels and genres covered. The activities are useful with a wide range of texts, and the guidelines show readers how to be effective decision makers as they plan literature instruction for the culturally, linguistically, and academically diverse K–8 students in today’s classrooms.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">This new edition includes:</P> <UL> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>Updated information about sharing literature </B>in the context of today’s classrooms.</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>New activities </B>for supporting students’ interactions with literature.</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>Numerous new examples</B> of children’s literature, many of them recent award winners.</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>Updated discussions of research</B> on recent studies and major reports.</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">A <B>new feature</B>, <I>Take Five! (or Take Ten!).</I> </DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Ideas and suggestions for <B>using literature in the content areas.</B> </DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>11 new activities</B> for expanding teachers’ repertoires for engaging students with literature,</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>Increased attention to using technology</B> to support students’ interactions with and responses to literature,</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>More than 80 new examples of exceptional literature,</B> </DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>A list of websites of recommended literature</B>, including positive, authentic examples of literature for diverse populations.</DIV> </LI> </UL>