Product Details

• Author: Kimberly Hill Campbell
• Year: 2007
• Grade Range: 6-12

• Media: 232 pp/paper
• ISBN: 978-157110-710-7
• Item No.: WEB-0710

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.

Table of Contents

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Contents
Foreword by Leila Christenbury
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Teaching Literature with Short Texts
Chapter 2: Structures and Strategies That Support the Teaching of Short Texts
Chapter 3: Short Stories
Chapter 4: Essays
Chapter 5: Memoir
Chapter 6: Poetry
Chapter 7: Children's Literature and Picture Books
Chapter 8: Graphic Novels
Index

Kimberly Hill Campbell
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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