Literature and Primary Sources - The Perfect Pairing for Student Learning

Enrich student engagement and deepen learning with this guide to foolproof techniques and strategies to integrate primary sources and literature to benefit learners from kindergarten through high school.

Readers of all ages experience literature in a different light when historical context is provided via primary sources. Literature, meanwhile, helps learners to uncover additional layers of meaning inherent in primary sources. Guided by best practices developed by the authors over years of working with both students and teachers, this book speaks to the countless opportunities for instructors to integrate related primary sources with the literature that students read in school classrooms-from historical fiction and poetry to graphic novels.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Sharing Our Stories
2. Inquiry Through Primary Source Analysis
3. Picture Books and Primary Sources
4. Graphic Novels and Primary Sources
5. Historical Fiction and Primary Sources
6. Classic Literature and Primary Sources
7. Narrative Nonfiction and Primary Sources
8. Poetry and Primary Sources
9. Contemporary YA and Primary Sources
Index

About the author

Tom Bober is an elementary librarian in Clayton, Missouri, USA; a former teacher in residence at the Library of Congress, a member of the Teachers Advisory Board at the National Portrait Gallery, and a 2018 Library Journal Mover and Shaker.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Bober, Tom (Elementary librarian Bober, Rebecca Newland, Rebecca (High School Librarian Newland
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.02.2024
• EAN: 9781440880414
• ISBN: 978-1-4408-8041-4
• No. of pages: 152
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 252 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 300 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, Library & information services, Library and information services, Teachers' classroom resources & material, Children's & teenage literature studies, Teachers’ classroom resources and material, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general, EDUCATION / Teaching / Materials & Devices