Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Informational Text

Bailey, Rachel

Fontichiaro, K. (2012). Informational text. School Library Monthly, 29(1), 51-52.

Summary: This article addresses how school librarians can prepare the library to align with the common core state standards. Weeding is stressed so new narrative informational text can replace old, outdated nonfiction. Other ideas include advertising online databases, giving teachers pointers for classroom book collections and using instructional strategies to help students interact with the text.


Evaluation:  I like how practical this article is. For example, it recommends posting annotated bibliographies of new library books in the teacher bathroom stalls as an alternative to sending such information via teacher’s already overloaded email accounts. 

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