Sentences with phrase «using nonfiction literature»

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And KIPP is working with Common Core, Inc., the non-profit that developed Eureka, to create a new K — 8 English curriculum for KIPP schools that is designed to build student knowledge systematically through the use of high quality works of literature, nonfiction, and informational text.

Because our picks range from politics to pop culture, science, social media, sports, history, the arts and literature, teachers tell us they use News Q's as a source of compelling nonfiction for lesson plans, homework assignments and extra-credit projects.

Using other nonfiction works, the course guides students in recognizing the importance of analyzing evidence, recognizing symbolism, examining word choice, and identifying figurative language in nonfiction literature.

Other selections illustrate the use of characterization, setting, mood, and conflict in nonfiction literature, and give students practice in evaluating consumer documents.

Courses expand teachers» knowledge, understanding, and instructional use of children's and YA literature (including both fiction and nonfiction) and increase the range of classroom texts that teachers can offer within and across content areas.

Ms. McChesney used her grant funds to purchase nonfiction books about biomes, which she had her students read in their literature circles.

Kalamazoo About Blog A Shakespeare scholar and editor, a professor of English at Western Michigan University, and the author of two nonfiction works on Renaissance literature and culture, Grace Tiffany uses fiction as an additional medium for exploring the early modern world.