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Kimberly Hill Campbell
Year: 2007
Foreword by Leila Christenbury
Media: 232 pp/paper
ISBN: 978-157110-710-7
Grade Range: 6-12
Item No.: WMW-0710
Price: $18.50
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Table of Contents | About the Author(s) | Reviews
This title is also available in e-book format Less Is More is full of powerful ideas for teaching with short, provocative text. This book broadens and extends our available teaching tools and materials, and can help engage all students. It is a valuable resource for language arts teachers.
—Cris Tovani
Language arts teachers want all of their students to love literature and embrace the novels they assign. The classroom reality is that many students are not ready or motivated to immerse themselves in an entire novel. In order to reach and engage all students, teachers need to look beyond novels alone and embrace a richer variety of literature. In Less Is More Kimberly Hill Campbell draws on research as well as her own classroom experiences to show how short texts engage a wide range of middle and high school students. She shares her discovery of the power of short texts to support her students' skills as readers, writers, and students of literature. Kimberly shows how short texts can be integrated into the curriculum, without sacrificing required novels. Chapters examine different genres of short text, such as short stories, essays, memoir, and graphic novels. Each chapter provides reading, writing, and response strategies as well as a broad selection of short text resources that have proven effective with a wide range of students.
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About the Author(s)
Kimberly Hill Campbell had a bit of a bumpy start as a beginning teacher. She taught language arts at Estacada Junior High School from 1979 until 1982."Then I became the statistic: a beginning teacher who left the profession."
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Reviews
Education Book Review - April 2008
"Campbell writes a teacher-friendly book in that she explains how she would teach in narrative form, describing specific examples from her own classroom experiences." Mosaic - February 2009
"Less Is More is an excellent resource. The book makes the connection between reading and writing and shows you how to teach the same thing without having the kids read volumes, so more can be covered." Teacher Leader Network - February 2008
"Less Is More offers an innovative change for those teachers who still vehemently believe that real literature can only be taught through the study of novels." Teacher Leader Network, February 2008 VOYA - April 2008
"Campbell's book makes a very good case for teaching with short texts. This book will be valuable for beginning and veteran teachers." VOYA, April 2008
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