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Informational Texts and the new Utah Library Media Core

Utah ELA Core and Informational Texts:

• 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

• 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

Get the Facts--A Dozen Ideas!

Get The Facts EMAZE

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

• 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

10. Select Quality Series

11. Compare Two Books

12. Identify Graphic Nonfiction

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

Primary Sources

• Primary Sources for Science
• Primary Source Resources

Resources:

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