Common Core Compass Nonfiction

Marc Aronson

ELA/Literacy: 3 Shifts

1. Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction

2. Reading, writing, and speaking grounded in evidence from text, both literary and informational

3. Regular practice with complex text and its academic language

Insight Into NF• Subject• Age Level• Shift to Individual Insight

CC and School • CC is the one chance for the school librarian to

step forward and make himself/herself the heart of the school, the go-to resource for parents, teachers, students, administrators

• CC is the ideal opportunity for team teaching, for Social Studies, Art, Music, Science, Math, ELA to work together

CC and School • Preschool• Parental• Student engagement• Creative Ideas • Build and Show the value of your NF resources

Steve Sheinkin

Laban Carrick Hill

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/1426310102/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books

Tonya Lee Stone

Deborah Heiligman

Phillip Hoose

Ann Bausum

Nonfiction Taxonomy• Action • Data• Disciplinary Thinking • Expository • Inquiry • Interpretation • Narrative

Action

Data

Disciplinary Thinking

Expository

Interpretation

Inquiry

Narrative

How To Use This?• Clustering• Author Orientation • Common Core Lens – Core Out Your

Informational Text

Where?

Sibert Award• Information books are defined as those written

and illustrated to present, organize, and interpret documentable, factual material for children.

• www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/sibertmedal

ALA beyond Sibert• Notable Children’s Books • http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/notalis

ts/ncb/ncbslctcomm• YALSA Nonfiction Award• http://www.ala.org/yalsa/nonfiction-award#c

urrent• YALSA Outstanding Books for College Bound• http://www.ala.org/yalsa/outstanding-books-

college-bound

ALA beyond Sibert• Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers• http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists/quickpicks

/2013

Orbis Pictus - NCTE• Accuracy• Organization• Design• Style• http://www.ncte.org/awards/orbispictus

NSTA• Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students

K–12• http://www.nsta.org/publications/ostb/ostb2

014.aspx

NCSS• http://www.socialstudies.org/notable

Junior Literary Guild JLG

• http://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/

Great Common Core Nonfiction• http://www.greatcommoncorenonfiction.com/

I.N.K.Interesting Nonfiction for Kids

• http://inkrethink.blogspot.com/

Classroom Bookshelf • http://classroombookshelf.blogspot.com/What is The Classroom Bookshelf?• Each Monday, The Classroom Bookshelf posts

an entry on a recently published book for children or young adults. Each entry includes three sections: Book Review, Teaching Invitations, and Further Explorations. Our goal is to identify books that can be used in K-8 classrooms in a variety of ways.

TeachingBooks.net

Reviews• School Library Journal• Publisher’s Weekly• Kirkus - https://www.kirkusreviews.com• Horn Book• Booklist• BCCB• Voya

Uncommon Corpshttp:/nonfictionandthecommoncore.blogspot.com/

Not defined by Subject

• Prisoner Picture• Elevates Use

Large Hearted Boy• http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archiv

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