UELMA+2015

Utah ELA Core and Informational Texts:
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 * Range of texts--Multiple Texts--How Texts Work
 * [|David Liben--Volume of Reading]
 * Focus on collaboration

Types of Informational Texts

 * Narrative
 * Looks and acts like fiction, but is not.
 * Procedural
 * Helps readers accomplish a goal.
 * Persuasive
 * Spurs readers to action.
 * Explanatory
 * Books about the how and why of a subject.

Formats
=Get the Facts--A Dozen Ideas!= Get The Facts EMAZE
 * Print
 * Graphic novels
 * E-books (Laurel Harris)
 * Follett E-Books
 * World Book
 * SIRS Discoverer
 * [|Audiobooks]
 * [|Pioneer Library and other databases]
 * Short Informational Texts (Articles)
 * Video
 * More Video

1. Select the books with the A-A-A
Authenticity--Appeal--Appropriateness

2. Stress Narrative Nonfiction

 * Non-Fiction that reads like a novel

3. Focus on Text Complexity

 * Variety of reading levels
 * Quantitative, qualitative, reader/task variables
 * [|Pioneer Online Library]--Adjust lexile ranges in "advanced search"

4. Address Reluctant Readers

 * High/Low, Graphic Novels, Easy Picture
 * Boys

5. Pair Fiction and Nonfiction

 * Fiction & NonFiction Book Pairs (Naomi Bates)
 * Fiction & Nonfiction Infographic (Naomi Bates)
 * Fiction/Nonfiction Pairs [Elementary] (Scholastic)

6. Provide Many Ways of Experiencing

 * Text sets
 * Different formats
 * Make connections--//**Under the Egg**// by [|Laura Marx Fitzgerald]
 * [|Metropolitan Museum of Art--Renaissance collection]
 * [|Monuments Men]
 * [|The True Story of the Monuments Men]

7. Explore Multiple Perspectives[[image:Feminist Cinderella.PNG width="288" height="243" align="right"]]

 * Cinderella
 * [|Cinderella--Charles Perrault]
 * [|Cinderella--Brothers Grimm]
 * [|Cinderella--Mary Pickford (19:00)]
 * //Rough Faced Girl, Princess Furball, Cindy Ellen, Big Foot Cinderella, Cinderhazel, Dinorella//, [|others]
 * //Bound, Stepsister's Tale, If the Shoe Fits, Chinese Cinderella, Ever After, Before Midnight, Cinder, Ella Enchanted, Just Ella//
 * //[|The triumph of joy: Lesson of a modern Cinderella]//
 * //[|The baffling anti-feminist politics of Disney's new Cinderella]//
 * Argumentative Writing
 * [|Close Reading Rubrics]

8. Cluster Related Works

 * [|Reading Clusters]

9. Connect Books to Real-World

 * Natural Disasters,
 * Three Gorges Dam,
 * Bill of Rights,
 * Vaccines

Text Features--Structure of Text

 * Quizlet (by cbghent, one of many already made)
 * Making the Most of Your Textbook
 * [|Kahoots--Features of Nonfiction Text]

Finding Quality Informational Texts

 * [|Orbis Pictis (NCTE)]
 * [|Excellence in Non-fiction (YALSA)]
 * [|Nominations]
 * [|Robert F. Seibert Informational Book Medal]
 * [|CLAU Informational Books]
 * Cybils Young Adult Nonfiction
 * Review sources

Programming:

 * Book Clubs
 * Speed Dating with Nonfiction (Jen Van Haaften)
 * Displays, Bulletin Boards and More
 * [|Animoto-MS] Animoto-HS
 * Picture Trail
 * Book Trailers

[|All the books mentioned in this presentation and more!]
[|Seminar on Literature for Youth--Annette Lamb] History Narrative Nonfiction List (Plymouth District Library) [|The End of Nonfiction? Deconstructing Nonfiction: On Common Core] [|Implementing the Common Core State Standards: The Role of The School Librarian Action Brief] [|Attacking the Common Core Standards: Informational Texts, Part 1] [|Attacking the Common Core Standards: Informational Texts, Part 2] [|2015 Youth Media Awards: A Crossover Year for Diversity] [|School Libraries Transform Learning]