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Informational Text: Recommended Books, Suggested Strategies
It’s all too easy to dismiss colorful, fun books of this sort, with their brief chunks of text and apparently oversized photos, as merely motivational in nature.
Lyra and the Adventure of the Flying Fish
K-Gr 2—Lyra searches for her rabbit after it disappears into the sea with a school of flying fish...
Colossus Rises: Seven Wonders, Book 1
Gr 5–9—Jack McKinley is just an ordinary 12-year-old boy who has been raised by various au pairs—until he almost dies after a car accident...
Is ‘Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox’ the Darkest Superhero Film Ever?
Can creators in essence separate the “super” from the “hero” and still be said to be working with the same character?
You Don’t Need to Go to Comic-Con to Have Fan Literacies
Many popular fanfiction stories are based on books that can be found in school libraries: The Hunger Games, Percy Jackson, and, of course, Harry Potter. For most fanfiction authors, though, that’s where the connection between fanfiction and school ends: they've never been asked by a teacher or librarian about their out-of-school writing.
Ways to Welcome Fanfiction in Schools
When it comes to fanfiction and academics, there is a long history of non-fans writing and doing things that fans don’t particularly like, so you should be extraordinarily careful when you introduce fanfiction-based exercises to wary young fans.
Fanfiction: What Educators Really Need to Know
Do young fanfiction authors seek the kind of feedback that educators would find “useful” in K-12 settings, and are fanfiction communities really the nurturing environments of peer-critique that some make them out to be?
In Honor of Baseball’s All-Star Game, A Book to Pre-Order
Student sports fans (in this case, baseball fans specifically) can leverage their outside-of-school literacies to comprehend and appreciate the sophisticated cartoons and high-level text.
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