Teaching English
Trade Books and Content Literacy
The content are is English.
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Reading/Comprehension Skills. Students use a flexible range of metacognitive reading skills in both assigned and independent reading to understand an author's message. Students will continue to apply earlier standards with greater depth in increasingly more complex texts as they become self-directed, critical readers. The student is expected to:
(A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others' desired outcome to enhance comprehension;
(B) ask literal, interpretive, evaluative, and universal questions of text;
(C) reflect on understanding to monitor comprehension (e.g., summarizing and synthesizing; making textual, personal, and world connections; creating sensory images);
(D) make complex inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding;
(E) summarize, paraphrase, and synthesize texts in ways that maintain meaning and logical order within a text and across texts; and make connections between and across texts, including other media (e.g., film, play), and provide textual evidence.
The Jungle Book
$1.99
Barnes & Noble
Nook
A Tale of Two Cities
$2.99
Barnes & Noble
Nook
Treasure Island
$4.29
Barnes & Noble
Nook
Use of trade books in content area:
Texts selected for English should be widely rccognized as noteworthy: a seminal or influential text in its genre. The texts should contain themes or ideas that are engaging, provocative, and significant. The themes of the books should support analysis, have a clear and developed narrative structure, and provide a discernible point-of-view.
Other trade books to read not directly related to content area: I would read (and have students read) The Call of the Wild by Jack London.
Module 6 -- Trade Books and Literacy
London, J. (2012). The Call of the Wild. Amazon Digital...
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