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Best
Books
Best Nonfiction Books
Look to the Orbis
Pictus Award to find the best nonfiction titles for your students.
See "The 2005 Orbis Pictus Award Winners: The Best in Nonfiction" (E-M-S)
from Language Arts for details on this year's winners.
Best Books for Young Adults
Check out "Intelligent Choices
for Intelligent Readers" (M-S-C) from English
Journal for details on young
adult books that respect teenagers
as intelligent and thoughtful adolescents,
presenting them with
characters who are defined as much
by their positive qualities as by
their problems or quirks.
ALAN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Adolescent Literature:
Jerry Spinelli, author of Maniac Magee, Wringer, and Stargirl (Assembly
on Literature for Adolescents of NCTE Breakfast, 7:00 a.m.)
Best Fiction Anthologies
Read "An Omnibus Review of Six Introductory
Fiction Anthologies" (C) from Teaching English in the Two-Year
College for suggestions on how to choose the best texts for your
class. The reviews focus on the price, the selection of stories, and
the usefulness of the explanatory apparatus that accompanies
those stories.
Best Professional Books
Take a look at the winner of the CEE
Richard A. Meade Award, announced this
week at NCTE's 2005 Convention. Making
Race Visible: Literacy Research for Cultural Understanding (G) edited by
Stuart Greene and Dawn Abt-Perkins, available as an NCTE Selects title, critically
examines literacy and its ideological underpinnings to argue for research and
instruction that acknowledges racial and cultural difference in order to create
more effective literacy learning experiences for students.
NOTE: Free access to journal articles mentioned in this Inbox is provided
for 21 days. After this free access period expires, articles are available
to journal subscribers only. This Inbox Idea was published 11-22-2005.
Initials in annotations indicate academic level of the resource (E=Elementary,
M=Middle, S=Secondary, C=College, G=General).
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