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    The Power of Picture Books: Using Content Area Literature in Middle School
    The Power of Picture Books: Using Content Area Literature in Middle School
    The Power of Picture Books: Using Content Area Literature in Middle School
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    The Power of Picture Books: Using Content Area Literature in Middle School

    By Mary Jo Fresch and Peggy Harkins

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    Picture books aren’t just for little kids. They are powerful and engaging texts that can help all middle school students succeed in language arts, math, science, social studies, and the arts. Picture books appeal to students of all readiness levels, interests, and learning styles. Featuring descriptions and activities for fifty exceptional titles, Mary Jo Fresch and Peggy Harkins offer a wealth of ideas for harnessing the power of picture books to improve reading and writing in the content areas. The authors provide a synopsis of each title along with discipline-specific and cross-curricular activities that illustrate how picture books can be used to supplement—and sometimes even replace—traditional textbooks. They also offer title suggestions that create a “text set” of supporting resources. By incorporating picture books into the classroom, teachers across the disciplines can introduce new topics into their curriculum, help students develop nonfiction literacy skills, provide authentic and meaningful cultural perspectives, and help meet a wide range of learning needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNational Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
    Release dateSep 9, 2009
    ISBN9780814101506
    The Power of Picture Books: Using Content Area Literature in Middle School
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    Mary Jo Fresch

    Mary Jo Fresch is an academy professor and professor emerita in the School of Teaching and Learning, College of Education and Human Ecology, at The Ohio State University. She has been an educator for more than forty years. She began her teaching career as a third-grade teacher, and then worked with adults with challenging literacy needs at the University of Akron. She has spent the last thirty years teaching literacy courses for preservice and inservice and  providing professional learning workshops teachers across the United States.  She speaks nationally and internationally about literacy-related topics.  Her research focuses on the developmental aspect of literacy learning. She has over sixty peer-reviewed articles in professional journals such as Language Arts, Journal of Literacy Research, The Reading Teacher, Reading and Writing Quarterly, and Reading Psychology. Her professional books include Strategies for Effective Balanced Literacy (2016), The Power of Picture Books: Using Content Area Literature in Middle School (2009), Engaging Minds in English Language Arts Classrooms: The Surprising Power of Joy (2014), and An Essential History of Current Reading Practices (editor; 2008). She coauthored Learning through Poetry (2013), a five-book phonemic and phonological awareness series, and 7 Keys to Research for Writing Success (2018) with David L. Harrison. She is married to her college sweetheart (Hank), has two married children, and five grandchildren.

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