
Once Upon a Fact
Helping Children Write Nonfiction
Teachers' College Press
Will be published approx. on 27. July 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-8077-4681-3 (ISBN)
Description
This timely book explores the debate about how best to engage children in the writing of nonfiction and suggests many instructional strategies for K-6 classrooms. Using transcripts and descriptions of children's actual writing practices, the authors show that children willingly embrace nonfiction writing when the genre is given an important place in the classroom. Drawn from the authors' classroom-based research study with third graders, this groundbreaking volume: explores in detail the intertextual patterns that children adopt when writing nonfiction reports; documents the ways in which peer and teacher influence fuel and direct children's writing; identifies four types of nonfiction writers - strategic, experience-only, memory-only, and textbound - and presents case studies with excerpts from interviews and nonfiction reports; and offers a set of instructional guidelines for supporting and extending expository writing, including sample lessons and curricular activities.
Reviews / Votes
Once Upon a Fact is a rich book: a gift for writing theorists, literacy researchers, and classroom teachers alike. It is comprehensive in its scope, smart in its execution, critical in its stance, and unusually self-reflective. - George Kamberelis, State University of New York at AlbanyMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
280 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8077-4681-3 (9780807746813)
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Persons
Carol Brennan Jenkins teaches courses in literacy and coordinates the elementary education program at Boston University. Alice Altfillisch Earle has taught third grade for over 20 years and is currently pursuing certification as a principal.
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Series Editor