Literature and Primary Sources (Paperback)

Tom Bober

ISBN 10: 1440880417 / ISBN 13: 9781440880414

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024

About this Item

Paperback. 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 classroomsfrom historical fiction and poetry to graphic novels. Offers foolproof techniques and strategies to integrate primary sources and literature with learners from kindergarten through high school to enrich students' reading experiences and deepen learning. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Literature and Primary Sources (Paperback)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1440880417
• ISBN 13: 9781440880414
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

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.

Rebecca Newland is a high school librarian in Fairfax County, Virginia, USA. She is a former Teacher in Residence at the Library of Congress where she specialized in creating resources for teachers to bring primary sources into the English Language Arts classroom and libraries. She contributes regularly to the blog of the Poetry and Literature Center at the Library of Congress is the author of Engaging Students with Library of Congress Primary Sources in the ELA Classroom with NCTE and the Library of Congress.