Comments on: This Should Not Be So hard http://blogs.slj.com/nonfictionmatters/2009/06/03/this-should-not-be-so-hard/ A School Library Journal Blog Sun, 05 Aug 2012 22:26:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: marc http://blogs.slj.com/nonfictionmatters/2009/06/03/this-should-not-be-so-hard/comment-page-1/#comment-417 marc Mon, 08 Jun 2009 05:27:37 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/nonfictionmatters/2009/06/03/this-should-not-be-so-hard/#comment-417 Mary: Send me the wiki and I'll post it in the column. Mary:

Send me the wiki and I’ll post it in the column.

]]> By: marybk http://blogs.slj.com/nonfictionmatters/2009/06/03/this-should-not-be-so-hard/comment-page-1/#comment-418 marybk Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:29:25 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/nonfictionmatters/2009/06/03/this-should-not-be-so-hard/#comment-418 Eighteen of us NF writers are presenting "Non-fiction Bookblast: Booktalks for Reluctant Readers" on Sunday, July 12, 2009, 10:30 a.m.-noon at the ALA Conference in Chicago. Books will be for all grade levels. I tried to include the wiki we've developed with our booktalks on it but got a message no html! But we are showing a PowerPoint, lots of handouts. Hope to see some of the readers of this blog there--a small but encouraging step to speak to librarians only about NF. Eighteen of us NF writers are presenting “Non-fiction Bookblast: Booktalks for Reluctant Readers” on Sunday, July 12, 2009, 10:30 a.m.-noon at the ALA Conference in Chicago. Books will be for all grade levels. I tried to include the wiki we’ve developed with our booktalks on it but got a message no html! But we are showing a PowerPoint, lots of handouts. Hope to see some of the readers of this blog there–a small but encouraging step to speak to librarians only about NF.

]]> By: Marc http://blogs.slj.com/nonfictionmatters/2009/06/03/this-should-not-be-so-hard/comment-page-1/#comment-419 Marc Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:57:08 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/nonfictionmatters/2009/06/03/this-should-not-be-so-hard/#comment-419 Susan: I'll keep the LMC link in mind -- I agree completely on NF as pleasure reading -- that was what my post the other day about "inner emotional experience" was about. Susan:

I’ll keep the LMC link in mind — I agree completely on NF as pleasure reading — that was what my post the other day about “inner emotional experience” was about.

]]> By: Susan T. http://blogs.slj.com/nonfictionmatters/2009/06/03/this-should-not-be-so-hard/comment-page-1/#comment-420 Susan T. Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:24:13 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/nonfictionmatters/2009/06/03/this-should-not-be-so-hard/#comment-420 Marc, at my son's public elementary school, a lot of research and use of nonfiction is handled through the Library Media Center, with the LMC specialist teaching research skills like you describe.<br> I'd like to see more emphasis on reading nonfiction for pleasure. My 9 year old comes home from the public library with big stacks of nonfiction books, but I don't seem much emphasis on NF in terms of independent in-school (non-research) reading. Marc, at my son’s public elementary school, a lot of research and use of nonfiction is handled through the Library Media Center, with the LMC specialist teaching research skills like you describe.
I’d like to see more emphasis on reading nonfiction for pleasure. My 9 year old comes home from the public library with big stacks of nonfiction books, but I don’t seem much emphasis on NF in terms of independent in-school (non-research) reading.

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