Teaching Challenging Texts: Fiction Non-fiction and Multimedia

Teaching Challenging Texts Fiction, Non-fiction, and Multimedia Teaching Challenging Texts shows how to increase reading comprehension and enhance student engagement, even with the most challenging texts. Every chapter features ready-to-use, research-based lessons, replete with explicit instructions, handouts, Common Core correlations, and assessments."Exploring the Future"� features fiction by George Orwell, Suzanne Collins, and William Golding; nonfiction by Philip Zimbardo, Stephen Pinker, Abraham Lincoln, Jared Diamond, Dan Ariely, and Ray Kurzweil; images from several films, an old television commercial; and classical and contemporary music."Understanding the Power of One"� features fiction by Victor Hugo and Lori Halse Anderson; nonfiction by Phillis Wheatley, Sojourner Truth, and Edith Hamilton; a young adult book on archaeology, an animated film from Walt Disney, and an episode from Saturday Night Live. An extensive list of free resources and correlations to the Common Core allow teachers to"teach on the cheap."� Teaching Difficult Texts brimswith"relevant and robust"� lessons for a new generation.Additional ISBNs9781475805215Teaching Challenging Texts: Fiction, Non-fiction, and Multimedia is written by Lawrence Baines; Jane Fisher and published by R&L Education. ISBNs for Teaching Challenging Texts are 9781475805222, 1475805225 and the print ISBNs are 9781475805208, 1475805209. Additional ISBNs include 9781475805215.