Literature Lures
Using Picture Books and Novels to Motivate Middle School Readers
1st Edition
Published on 9. April 2002
144 pages
978-0-313-01010-1 (ISBN)
Description
Motivate middle school students to become more involved in literature! Introducing hundreds of sophisticated and thought-provoking picture books on a variety of topics, this book shows you how to connect students to literature through picture books. Each title was carefully chosen, using as criteria the quality of the writing, the importance of its message, and how easily it could serve as a springboard to novels. Students will become familiar with the basic components of literature, understand idioms and analogies, recognize literary devices, and determine a text's main ideas. Each topic includes questions and writing prompts that will challenge your students. With this book, you will be able to deepen students' understanding of the writer's craft and inspire them to immerse themselves in quality literature.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-313-01010-1 (9780313010101)
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Nancy J. Polette | Joan Ebbesmeyer
Literature Lures
Using Picture Books and Novels to Motivate Middle School Readers
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Nancy J. Polette is professor of education at Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO, author of more than 100 professional books, and an in-demand speaker at state and national library, gifted, and reading conferences.
JOAN EBBESMEYER is Adjunct Professor of Education at Lindenwood University, O'Fallon, Missouri.
JOAN EBBESMEYER is Adjunct Professor of Education at Lindenwood University, O'Fallon, Missouri.
Content
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- Part 1: ISSUES
- Civil Disobedience
- Connection: Civil Protest
- Rebel
- Discussion
- The Pushcart War
- Creativity
- Connection: The Creative Spirit
- The Collector of Moments
- Discussion
- Chicago Blues
- Destiny
- Differences
- Connection: Marching to a Different Drummer
- Aliens in My Nest: Squib Meets the Teen Creature
- Discussion
- Lizard
- Seventh Grade Weirdo
- Geeks
- Connection: Judging by Appearances
- Appearing Tonight, Mary Heather Elizabeth Livingstone
- Discussion
- Belle Prater's Boy
- Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack
- The Planet of Junior Brown
- Connection: Understanding Differences
- Wings
- Discussion
- Randall's Wall
- Strays Like Us
- Guns and Violence
- Connection: Coping with Guns and Violence
- Just One Flick of a Finger
- Discussion
- One-Eyed Cat
- The Rifle
- The Holocaust
- Connection: Gentiles Saving Jews
- Rose Blanche
- Discussion
- Forging Freedom
- Number the Stars
- Connection: Coping with the Holocaust
- Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust
- Discussion
- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
- Children of Bach
- The Grey Striped Shirt
- Connection: Surviving War
- The Butterfly
- Discussion
- Good Night Maman
- Waiting for Anya
- Homelessness
- Connection: Coping with Homelessness
- Fly Away Home
- Discussion
- Tonight
- Monkey Island
- Magic
- Connection: Finding Magic
- Nobody Rides the Unicorn
- Discussion
- Into the Land of the Unicorns
- The Transfigured Hart
- Mind Control
- Connection: Fighting Those Who Control
- The Watertower
- Discussion
- A Dusk of Demons
- The Giver
- Others See Us
- Miracles
- Connection: Experiencing Miracles
- The Acrobat and the Angel
- Discussion
- The Christmas Box
- The Trees Kneel at Christmas
- Native American Identity
- Connection: Preserving Identity
- Cheyenne Again
- Discussion
- A Woman of Her Tribe
- The Rainmakers
- Perception
- Connection: Different Perceptions
- Switch on the Night
- Discussion
- Nothing But the Truth: A Documentary Novel
- Connection: Different Perspectives
- From a Distance
- Discussion
- Fly Free
- The Door in the Lake
- The Pioneer Spirit
- Connection: Pioneer Life
- Dakota Dugout
- Discussion
- Grasshopper Summer
- Bluestem
- The Power of Nature
- Connection: Appreciating Nature
- The Bird House
- Discussion
- Going Through the Gate
- Connection: Facing Danger
- River of Life
- Discussion
- River Runners
- River Danger
- Connection: Coping with Winter
- The Silver Swan
- Discussion
- Tracks in the Snow
- The Sign of the Beaver
- The Price of Freedom
- Connection: Those in Bondage
- The Wagon
- Barefoot: Escape on the Underground Railroad
- Discussion
- Nightjohn
- Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs
- Dear Austin
- Problems of Society
- Connection: Resisting Drugs
- The House That Crack Built
- The Inner City Mother Goose
- Discussion
- Fast Sam, Cool Clyde and Stuff
- Connection: Fighting Drugs
- Riding the Tiger
- Discussion
- Go Ask Alice
- Breaking the Ring
- Connection: The Inner City
- Smoky Night
- Discussion
- The $66 Summer
- Circle of Fire
- Connection: The Great Depression
- Tree of Hope
- Discussion
- Treasures in the Dust
- Dave at Night
- Connection: Recklessness
- The Wretched Stone
- Discussion
- The Crossing
- Connection: Consequences of Carelessness
- The Wreck of the Zephyr
- Discussion
- Johnny Tremain
- Self-Identity
- Connection: Finding One's Way
- Goose
- Discussion
- Nowhere to Call Home
- Park's Quest
- Connection: Finding One's Identity
- The Bunyip of Berkeley's Creek
- Discussion
- Even Stephen
- Hold Fast to Dreams
- Suicide
- Connection: Coping with Suicide
- I Never Knew Your Name
- Discussion
- Face at the Edge of the World
- The Wages of War
- Connection: Classic Struggles
- The Illiad and the Odyssey, retold and illustrated
- Discussion
- Aleta and the Queen
- The Immortal
- Connection: Finding Courage
- The Cello of Mr. O.
- Discussion
- The Eternal Spring of Mr. Ito
- The Cay
- Connection: Growing with Conflict
- The Seed
- Discussion
- Lily's Crossing
- Under the Blood-Red Sun
- Connection: Finding Hope
- The Snow Goose
- Discussion
- Stones in the Water
- Connection: The Aftermath of War
- The Wall
- Discussion
- December Stillness
- The Car
- Wisdom
- Connection: Finding Wisdom
- The Hunter: A Chinese Folktale retold
- Discussion
- Yossi Tries to Help God
- Switchers
- Witchcraft
- Connection: Facing Witchcraft
- The Red Heels
- Discussion
- Gallows Hill
- The Witch of Blackbird Pond
- Working Together
- Connection: Collaborating
- The Eagle and the Wren, a Fable retold
- Discussion
- Willie the Frog Prince
- What's to Be Scared of Suki?
- Part 2: LURES TO LANGUAGE
- Alliteration
- Some Smug Slug
- Fed Up! A Feast of Frazzled Foods
- The Z Was Zapped
- Anagrams
- Elvis Lives and Other Anagrams
- Biography Poems
- The Microscope
- Descriptive Writing
- Toad
- Exaggeration
- Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett
- Swamp Angel
- Metaphor/Personification
- Grandfather Twilight
- Grandmother Winter
- Workshop
- News Article
- The Egyptian News
- Nonfiction Narrative
- White Bear, Ice Bear
- Opposites
- Fortunately
- Palindromes
- So Many Dynamos
- Parody: Cinderella
- Ashpet: An Appalachian Tale
- Bigfoot Cinderrrrrella
- Bubba the Cowboy Prince: A Fractured Texas Tale
- Cinder Edna
- Cinder-Elly
- Cinderella Skeleton
- Cinderella's Rat
- Cinderhazel: The Cinderella of Halloween
- Dinorella
- Parody: Fairy Tales
- The Frog Prince Continued
- Hansel and Pretzel
- Jim and the Beanstalk
- Help Yourself, Little Red Hen!
- Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter
- Sleepless Beauty
- Snow White in New York
- Revolting Rhymes
- True Story of the Three Little Pigs
- Fairy Tales from Another Point of View
- Parody: Literary and Film
- The Happy Hockey Family
- Kat Kong
- Oh Brother!
- Black Hearts at Battersea
- The Half-a-Moon Inn
- The December Rose
- The Sorcerer's Apprentice
- Swine Lake
- Honk
- About Swan Lake
- Parody: Mother Goose
- The Inner City Mother Goose
- The Thinker's Mother Goose
- Whatever Happened to Humpty Dumpty?: And Other Surprising Sequels to Mother Goose Rhymes
- "Paul Revere" Poetry
- Iron Horses
- Covered Wagons, Bumpy Trails
- Puns
- Ding Dong, Ding Dong
- Hoots and Toots and Hairy Brutes
- Nose Drops
- The Quest Tale
- Pondlarker
- Repetition
- The Iron Giant
- Similes
- A Surfeit of Similes
- Story Starters
- Mysteries of Harris Burdick
- Tone Poem
- Listen to the Rain
- AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR AND TITLE INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
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- F
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- I
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- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
