Pairing Creative Nonfiction and Fiction: Reading Strategies, Critical Thinking, and Author Techniques Book

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Can a piece of nonfiction captivate a student? You bet it can, and even more so when that nonfiction work is coupled with a work of complementary fiction. Pairing Creative Fiction and Nonfiction: Reading Strategies, Critical Thinking, and Author Techniques digs dig deeply into a work of creative nonfiction paired with a work of fiction to investigate what the author is “doing” in both genres to get our attention. Pairing of nonfiction with fiction is required by many state standards, and this book offers five paired selections with assignments and activities that allow students to make connections be­tween nonfiction and fiction text. Five genres are explored through paired excerpts: Journalism Memoir Historical Documents Biography Narrative Nonfiction Handouts, activities, and assignments work together to aid the students in their analysis of all 10 selections: Vocabulary (context clues, usage) Primary and Secondary Sources handout and activity Literary Devices and Literary Elements, with Definitions handout Literary Tools for Analyzing Creative Nonfiction handouts Critical Reading Strategies for Creative Nonfiction handouts Universal Essential Questions handout (25 universal questions to connect both the paired selections as well as all 10 selections) Culminating Assignments tie it all together, including an assignment that introduces students to research through the use of endnotes and bibliographies. Includes an Answer Key. ©2018. English. High school. Reproducible. Spiral-bound. 8 x 11 inches. 168 pages.