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Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing, and Research in Grades 3-8 | Stephanie Harvey

My end of the year #Nonfiction2023! Not a complete card, but boy some great books in there!

And I can see I‘m way WAY behind on reviews 😂. New Years Resolution, go back to reviewing right after I finish or I won‘t get back to it. 🤣

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa #Nonfiction2024Template 4mo

Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing, and Research in Grades 3-8 | Stephanie Harvey

#Nonfiction2024 is here! And it‘s a big challenge this year.

First, these are not the books you need to read…although if you haven‘t read them, I encourage you to read them.

These are banned books, and they are banned for subject matter they contain that we find objectionable for some reason.

Your challenge is to read a nonfiction book about a similar subject:
Examples below⤵️

Riveted_Reader_Melissa ↪️ Harry Potter “promotes witchcraft”… maybe a nonfiction book about witches or Salem, too dark for you…maybe a book about Wiccan beliefs. Or go a different direction, a book with an orphan.
~ Reading about anything helps us understand and understanding & empathy diffuses fear.
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa ↪️ So take these the way you want…a nonfiction about the core subject, or a tangential connection… not feeling like diving into the tough topics in some books… that‘s ok too….we all need a break from tough topics sometimes too. Maybe instead of diving into topics from Kafka on the Shore, an uplifting book about marine life. A book that includes the Shore, etc 4mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa ↪️ Maus… you could go into the history it tries to impart, but if that‘s to heavy, maybe a great book about graphic novel writing, or a something about cats and/or mice. 4mo

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa ↪️ As always, your choice! Make it fun for you! Be as creative as you want with your choices…..And tag us as you go! (We all need more suggestions) (edited) 4mo

ChaoticMissAdventures This is a fabulous idea!! I didn't read as much nonfiction as I wanted in 2023 so I need this! 4mo

youneverarrived Amazing idea! 🖤 Looking forward to joining in! 4mo

Deblovestoread Challenge accepted! Love this! ❤️💚❤️ 4mo

AnneCecilie Love this idea. I see several books I haven‘t read and want to read, so I might take this challenge literal. 4mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @AnneCecilie I‘m the same…for some I‘ll probably read the banned book and then a nonfiction book. And as few are non-fiction books, so they could count as themselves too. 😉 4mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @ChaoticMissAdventures @AnnCecilie @youneverarrived and @Deblovestoread Welcome! I try to come up with a theme and board each year. You can just go for bingo or we have a few over-achievers that go for coverall. It‘s all up to what works best for you. Enjoy and have fun with your choices! 4mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa #LitsyHappenings @LitsyHappenings #NonfictionMatters (edited) 4mo

Larkken Interesting! Saving to look into later. Thank you ☺️ 4mo

Singout Thank you! This looks like a really cool structure. And it‘s year five for me! 4mo

peanutnine Wow I love this concept! Excited to take part again in 2024! I read much more nonfiction this year and I'd like to continue. Thanks for putting this together ☺️ 4mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Singout & @peanutnine You‘re welcome! This year‘s theme came to me much easier than some years….but then again, it has been a year with a lot of new book banning. 🫤 (edited) 4mo

Amiable Oh, how I love this nonfiction bingo challenge! My brain is already in overdrive trying to think of matches. Thanks! 4mo

Zuhkeeyah I love this year‘s theme! 4mo

Zuhkeeyah Should I make a Storygraph challenge for this year‘s prompts? (It was helpful for me when tracking progress on this year‘s caustic theme.) 4mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Zuhkeeyah if you want to, you definitely can! I am not on Storygraph, but anywhere you want to share it is fine with me. 4mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Maybe I should check out Storygraph 4mo

willaful Great concept! I've was just thinking today that I really should listen to the audiobook of Born a Crime, so I'll probably do that one literally. 4mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @willaful That‘s fine too, a few are nonfiction so totally works. And that‘s a really good one. 4mo

willaful @Riveted_Reader_Melissa I read it in print and enjoyed it very much, and then my daughter's high school class listened to the audiobook and it sounded like so much fun, I've been meaning to do it. (I love that for today's kids!) 4mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @willaful He reads it himself, and being a comedian… he can make even tense things funny when he tells them. 4mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @willaful Not all books are good as audiobooks, but some like that one are even better because of the Narration. 4mo

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kspenmoll Wow. I am proud that I have read all but 3 on the bingo board. It‘s hard to fathom these books are banned in places. Especially Florida… 4mo

CatLass007 @Riveted_Reader_Melissa Will you please add me to your tag list? Is there a tag list? 3mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @CatLass007 I do not have a tag list, sorry. I just tag the #Nonfiction2024 and then anyone can search by it. 3mo

CatLass007 @Riveted_Reader_Melissa Okay. Thanks. I thought that might be the case. It‘s very sad and more than a little bit scary that the number of banned books is even higher than the books on your Bingo card. 3mo

CatLass007 I‘ve had Born A Crime in my Audible library since not long after it was released. Sometimes I need a little extra incentive to listen to any given book. 3mo

CatLass007 You indicated in your post that there were examples of pairings, but I can‘t find the examples. 3mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @CatLass007 if you open the comments, they were like the first couple comments under the post 3mo

CatLass007 Thank you. For some reason I wasn‘t able to find them before and it took me a minute just now. 3mo

CatLass007 I feel like I‘m being a nuisance but I‘ve never done this challenge before. Or any challenge for that matter. I understand the challenge and I‘m very excited about it. But I have no idea how to put a picture of a book I‘ve read on the Bingo card. Make sense? Do you use an app like PicCollage? If that‘s the particular app I need to use, I‘m screwed, because I don‘t find it intuitive at all. Any advice you can provide would be appreciated. (cont)⬇️ 3mo

CatLass007 I hate to be one of those people who needs handholding to perform a task that others find as easy as pie. 3mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @CatLass007 You are fine! First rule, there are no bad questions! If we don‘t ask, we can‘t learn anything new. I take a screenshot of the book cover, usually on Goodreads, crop it as a photo so it‘s just the cover, then use a free app called GoDaddy Studio (formerly Over), that just lets me layer 1 picture overtop the other. I‘m sure there are many others that do the same. 3mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @CatLass007 and it‘s only easy as pie once you played with it once or twice. 3mo

CatLass007 Thank you. I appreciate your information and encouragement. 3mo

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SaunteringVaguelyDownwards

Grading Smarter, Not Harder: Assessment Strategies That Motivate Kids and Help Them Learn | Myron Dueck

I wasn't going to do this since it's the end of the semester, but I need grading motivation, so my goal is to spend 20 hours over the next 4 days reading and grading student essays. I'll break it up with fun reading by trying to get to 60% in Snuff by Terry Prachett (at 38% now).

#20in4Readathon @Andrew65

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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing, and Research in Grades 3-8 | Stephanie Harvey

Hello #SheSaid! Here‘s our schedule for the rest of the year AND Nominations Are Open for the rest of next year!

Please add your nominations to the comments section!

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @tenar @vlwelser @KVanRead @SamAnne @Julsmarshall @arlenefinnigan @Chab256 @Scochrane26 @CoffeeK8. @MallenNC @DebinHawaii @Currey @Augustdana @Suet624 @Singout @mhillis @megnews @Jgotham @AnneCecilie @kspenmoll @staci.reads @AllDebooks @MilesnMelodies @Deblovestoread @willaful @psalva @Amor4Libros ⤵️ 5mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa ↪️ @Smrloomis @KathyWheeler @Bookwormjillk @bibliobliss @JenlovesJT47 @Karisa @fredthemoose @Christine @mandarchy @rjsthumbelina @Tera66 @Megabooks @BookBosomed1 @MoonWitch94 @sabyym @ncsufoxes @Readergrrl @wanderinglynn @TheKidUpstairs @charl08 As always if anyone would like added or removed from this tag list, please just let me know. And if you asked and I forgot, please remind me. Thank you! 😉 5mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa I‘m going to reread Wild by Cheryl Stayed in the near future, if anyone else is interested, we could read together.

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa I really found Kate Manne‘s Down Girl interesting, but I still haven‘t picked up the next book Entitled.

Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

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AllDebooks Hmm🤔 Anything by Cordelia Fine such as Testerone Rex, Delusions of gender, A mind of its own; Everybody by Olivua Laing, Hagitude by Sharon Blackie,

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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Bookwormjillk I read (and enjoyed) the Memory Police but count me in to the rest. I‘ll start reserving books now so I can interact more with the discussions next year. 5mo

willaful @AllDebooks I'm listening to Doppelganger, it's amazing. 5mo

AllDebooks @willaful I adore Naomi Klein, she's so good 5mo

vlwelser Doppelganger and Wild both get my vote. 5mo

Deblovestoread Please remove me from your tag list. I might pop in if you read I book I already own. 2024 is the challenge of filling prompts with owned books for me. 5mo

Singout My rather long to-read list includes Highway of Tears, Sitting Pretty, Unsettling Spirit, People Love Dead Jews, In Defense of Witches, Run Towards the Danger, The Future Is Disabled. 5mo

Becoming a Matriarch

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Woman on the Edge of Time

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Eyeliner: A Cultural History

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The Race to Be Myself: A Memoir

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BookBosomed1

Badass Feminist Politics: Exploring Radical Edges of Feminist Theory, Communication, and Activism

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MallenNC I hope to keep up with our picks in 2024! A suggestion is

Young and Restless: The Girls Who Sparked America's Revolutions

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BookBosomed1

How to Say Babylon

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KathyWheeler I am having a real problem reading that font. 5mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @KathyWheeler I changed it…better? 5mo

KathyWheeler @Riveted_Reader_Melissa Much! Thank you! 5mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @KathyWheeler You‘re welcome 5mo

Out of the Sun: On Race and Storytelling

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Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic

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Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States

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Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality

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Young and Restless: The Girls Who Sparked America's Revolutions

Rehearsals for Living

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TheKidUpstairs This one sounds great too, one of NPR's Books of the Year

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MallenNC @TheKidUpstairs I suggested that one too. It sounds great for us! 5mo

MallenNC I don‘t know if there‘s still time to nominate but this one sounds really interesting

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine And Myth in a Man-Made World

Unbowed: A Memoir

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staci.reads I don't know if nominations are still open, but I just heard about this one.

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staci.reads This also looks good

Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa @CatLass007 here it is 1mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @CatLass007 I put all these on the questionnaire and a few others people tagged me in or mentioned elsewhere and a few on my own pile 1mo

CatLass007 Oh. Well that was fast. Thank you. 1mo

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kelli7990

The Readers' Advisory Guide to Nonfiction | Neal Wyatt

I‘m sharing the prompts for #nonfictionnovember and what I might choose for these prompts.

1. I‘ll probably choose one of my Christian nonfiction books for this one because Christian nonfiction makes me feel uncomfortable.

2. I‘ll probably choose a True Crime book for this one.

3. I haven‘t decided yet. I‘ll have to see if I can find something for this.

4. I‘ll probably read a nonfiction book about something I‘m interested in.

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kelli7990

The Readers' Advisory Guide to Nonfiction | Neal Wyatt

I‘m so excited about Nonfiction November. I participated once a few years ago but didn‘t participate again for some reason. I don‘t remember the exact year I participated but I had so much fun. I like fiction but I also like nonfiction so this event is perfect for me. I know it‘s October but I‘m already starting to think about what I might want to read for this. I‘m going to try to find books to fit the 4 prompts.

#nonfictionnovember

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Sleepswithbooks

Words, Words, Words: Teaching Vocabulary in Grades 4-12 | Janet Allen

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Week 1: Second Game Entry: 70 book titles 📚
700 points

#Scarathlon2023 #TeamMischiefandMayhem #Games #PlaywithMe

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Clwojick Great job! 7mo

PuddleJumper Brilliant! Well done 7mo

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Kshakal

Growing Readers: Units of Study in the Primary Classroom | Kathy Collins

I have literally been each of these at some point in my life! 🤓

AnnCrystal 💕❤️Me too!!! So perfect 😉☺️👍. 7mo

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Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing, and Research in Grades 3-8 | Stephanie Harvey

The Sum of Us: What racism costs everyone….I‘m using for the prompt: Strange Fruit. It is definitely a sanitized version of what that phrase originally stood for, and someday I will read The Red Record, but I think The Sum of Us Does a great job encapsulating so many unexpected and strange outcomes from the seeds we have sowed.

#Nonfiction2023