Navigating Award‐Winning Nonfiction Children's Literature. (3rd April 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Smith, Jennifer M.; Robertson, Marla K.
• Is Part Of: Reading teacher. Volume 73:Number 2(2019)
• Page Start: 195
• Page End: 204
• Publication Date: 2019-04-03
• Subjects: Questioning < Comprehension -- Awards < Literature -- Literature‐based instruction < Literature -- Children's literature -- Instructional strategies, teaching strategies < Strategies, methods, and materials -- Text features, text structure < Comprehension -- Content analyses < Content literacy -- Nonfiction -- Discussion strategies < Strategies, methods, and materials -- Reading strategies < Strategies, methods, and materials -- Supplementary resources < Strategies, methods, and materials -- Instructional strategies; methods and materials -- Literature -- 2‐Childhood -- 3‐Early adolescence -- 5‐College/university students -- 6‐Adult; Reading (Elementary) -- Periodicals; Reading -- Periodicals; Reading -- Remedial teaching -- Periodicals; 372.405
• DOI: 10.1002/trtr.1811
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0034-0561

Abstract

Abstract: Nonfiction children's literature has changed in recent years, including an increase in organizational, design, and text features. The authors conducted a content analysis of 112 nonfiction award‐winning and honor books from 2000 to 2018 to examine how the books have changed over time. The authors discuss the patterns, changes, and complexities found in nonfiction children's literature and provide text sets and guiding questions for classroom instruction and exploration of three features that appear in books in a variety of ways and may be challenging for students: atypical text, graphics with information, and supplemental expository information.