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28Mar

Timelines in Nonfiction Picture Books: Mentor Texts

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I love to ask librarians what they wish they had in their libraries. One librarian told me that her teachers are always looking for timelines. I realized that my children have all been assigned to make timelines for various projects in elementary school. I’m sure teachers are looking for mentor texts to examine how timelines […]

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3Oct

Craft: What belongs in the back? Six things to include in the Author’s Note

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Author’s Note Afterword A Note about This Story The titles vary, but what belongs in that bit of text that comes at the end of a nonfiction picture book, next to the timelines and glossaries, the bibliographies and source attributions? Why have an Author’s Note? In my reading of nonfiction picture books, I’ve found six […]

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26Sep

Craft: Dialogue in nonfiction: Is invented dialogue OK?

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How do writers keep nonfiction lively? Often, we adopt fictional strategies to tell our nonfiction stories. We think about characterization, setting, and plot arc. We often, like fiction writers, try to show an event rather than simply telling what happened. Of course, the problem for a nonfiction writer is that her toolbox is limited to […]

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