Reasons+for+Text+Sets

According to Mary Ann Cappiello and Erika Thulin Dawes, there are important reasons for using text sets:

 * ===Capturing interest and cultivating engagement[[image:2014-03-28.jpg width="480" height="370" align="right"]]===
 * ===Stimulating inquiry===
 * ===Reading for multiple perspectives===
 * ===Building background knowledge===
 * ===Promoting student writing in different genres===
 * ===Differentiating instruction===
 * ===Supporting vocabulary development===

//Source : Cappiello, Mary A., Erika T. Dawes, and Lesley University. Teaching with text sets. Huntington Beach, CA: Shell Education, 2013. Print.//

__**Examples--Holocaust:**__ //Graphic novel: Maus// //Historical fiction: Rose Under Fire// //Poetry and Art: I Never Saw Another Butterfly// //Novel in Verse: T4// //Autobiography: Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl// //Biography: Survivors: True Stories of Children of the Holocaust// //YouTube: Elie Weisel interview// //Non-fiction: The Holocaust Camps by Ann Byers// //Website: Online Exhibition: Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race// // Podcast: // // NPR: Aging Holocaust Survivors and Memory //

//Thought question: What is the purpose of remembering?//

__**Examples--Survival:**__ Non-fiction: // Between A Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston // Non-Fiction: // Into Thin Air by John Krakauer // Non-fiction: //Shackleton's Way by Margot Morrell// Simultaneous e-book: //Nature's Wrath// Fiction: // Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein // Fiction: // The Maze Runner by James Dashner // Fiction: // Rot and Ruin by Jonathan Maberry // YouTube: // Aron Ralston Real Video Footage // ESPN Article: // "Ralston Story Has Motivated Inspired" (19 Aug 2005). // Website: Shakleton's Voyage of Endurance (PBS Website) // Interactive Website: Everest 2012 (Outside Magazine) // Infographic // : [|Do It Yourself Natural Disaster Survival] //

// Thought Question? Fools or Heroes? // // OR // // How do you survive? What is the relationship between decisions and consequences? //