Check out these new titles at the OISE library!
Keep Them Reading: An Anti-Censorship Handbook for Educators
This handbook is ideal for teachers, librarians, and administrators to prevent censorship in a school or school system, and what to do if it happens. The award-winning authors of this book have devoted their careers to anti-censorship work. They discuss the importance of reading, and how censorship issues can cause problems for even the best literacy programs. Topics described in this tile include understanding challenges and censorship, developing a philosophy, engaging the community, preparing for a challenge, and much more!
This new title will help teachers lead their student through the writing process from generating ideas to publication. Authors Gretchen Bernabei and Dottie Hall describe new ways to teach expository writing so it will realistically match how students actually think and write. The barrier between “academic” writing, and “creative” writing will be broken down with the teaching methods put forth in this books, and allow students to write non-fiction with a strong voice. All activities are based on situations teachers may find themselves in, and are easily adaptable.
This beautifully drawn graphic novel demonstrates a creative method that is playful yet powerful. The author Lynda Barry fills the pages with full-colour drawings, comics, collages, and autobiographical sections, which explore the depths of creation and imagination. In her fist book published by Canada’s Drawn & Quarterly, Lynda Barry’s insights and sincerity will encourage the creative inhibitions of her readers.
These and other new titles can be found on the New Acquisitions shelf of the first floor of the OISE library.