Nonfiction category: 1132351 books
Truth in Nonfiction
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Even before the controversy that surrounded the publication of A Million Little Pieces, the question of truth has been at the heart of memoir. From Elie Wiesel to Benjamin Wilkomirski to David Sedaris, the veracity of writers’ claims has been suspect. In this fascinating and timely collection of...
Behind The Text
Candid Conversations with Australian Creative Nonfiction Writers
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Behind the Text is a celebration of the often forgotten genre of creative nonfiction, through research about and interviews conducted with eleven prolific award-winning Australian creative nonfiction authors, including Paul McGeough, Doris Pilkington Garimara (the last interview before her death in...
by Darla Miner, Jill Zitnay
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Exploring Nonfiction with Young Learners explores the four basic nonfiction structures that the youngest learners are most likely to encounter: descriptive, recount/collection, procedural, and explanatory texts. This book also includes information to help teach four, more complex structures that younger...
Diving Deep Into Nonfiction, Grades 6-12
Transferable Tools for Reading ANY Nonfiction Text
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
All nonfiction is a conversation between writer and reader, an invitation to agree or disagree with compelling and often provocative ideas. With Diving Deep Into Nonfiction, Jeffrey Wilhelm and Michael Smith deliver a revolutionary teaching framework that helps students read well by noticing:
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Literary Conversations in the Classroom
Deepening Understanding of Nonfiction and Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Combining research with real-life classroom examples, this book demonstrates how high-level conversations centered on fiction and nonfiction can promote student understanding and help them meet and exceed a spectrum of standards. The authors demonstrate how to use literary conversations in small,...
Blurring the Boundaries
Explorations to the Fringes of Nonfiction
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
Contemporary discussions on nonfiction are often riddled with questions about the boundaries between truth and memory, honesty and artifice, facts and lies. Just how much truth is in nonfiction? How much is a lie? Blurring the Boundaries sets out to answer such questions while simultaneously exploring...
Teaching With Text-Based Questions
Helping Students Analyze Nonfiction and Visual Texts
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Help your students navigate complex texts in history/social studies and English language arts! This book shows you how to use a key tool—text-based questions—to build students’ literacy and critical thinking skills and meet the Common Core State Standards. You’ll learn how to ask text-based...
Post-Revolution Nonfiction Film
Building the Soviet and Cuban Nations
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
In the charged atmosphere of post-revolution, artistic and political forces often join in the effort to reimagine a new national space for a liberated people. Joshua Malitsky examines nonfiction film and nation building to better understand documentary film as a tool used by the state to create powerful...
Reading Science Stories
Narrative Tales of Science Adventurers
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Reading Science Stories is a book meant to celebrate nonfiction reading, especially narrative nonfiction, as a vehicle for understanding the world around us. We live in what is the greatest scientific era in all of human history, it also happens to be an Information Age, and nonfiction is a great...
Does Nonfiction Equate Truth?
Rethinking Disciplinary Boundaries through Critical Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Educators who teach children’s literature at the college level as part of the pre-service experience seldom allocate enough space in the curriculum for nonfiction literature. This book recognizes the viability of nonfiction as a literary genre that demands critical analysis, celebrates storytelling...
by Crawford Kilian
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Tens of thousands of nonfiction books are published every year, and yours can get published too! To get your nonfiction book published, you'll need to know how to develop your ideas and write a book that stands out from the crowd. And you'll also need to know how to get editors' attention, how to...
Booktalking Nonfiction
200 Surefire Winners for Middle and High School Readers
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Booktalking Nonfiction: 200 Sure-Fire Winners for Middle and High School Readers will provide an introduction to selecting and writing booktalks for nonfiction books with a focus on unique informational texts and biographies and autobiographies. A booktalk is a summary of a book presented in a way...
Do You Have the Aptitude & Personality to Be a Popular Author?
Professional Creative Writing Assessments
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
Are you best-suited to be a historical novelist, mystery writer, short story sprinter, digital interactive story writer on ancient civilizations, a nonfiction writer, or an author of thrillers using historical settings or universal themes? Do you think like a fiction writer, investigative journalist,...
Who's Buying Which Popular Short Fiction Now, & What Are They Paying?
How to Write, Customize, & Sell Tales Online or on Paper
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2007
Online booksellers are rapidly becoming online publishers. Sell your short fiction or nonfiction to the newest markets.
Anyone who publishes your compiled short stories, novels, or nonfiction is looking for more opportunities to market your work. If you have published your stories or nonfiction...