I am also posting this cool book I got on infographics for literature. If you are a regular-old English teacher part of the day, this book might be fun to get. It might also inspire your journalists.
Up Front http://upfront.scholastic.com/
You can use this magazine in a lot of ways and I really love it. We use it for Kelley Gallagher's "Article of the Week" and for practice with non-fiction texts. As Alan mentioned, there are all kinds of fantastic video links and teacher support materials. There is usually a primary source document in each issue and there is always a political cartoon. It is rich for inspiring discussion. It is worth the money. If you put your order in by the end of the month, June, you get a 25% discount. You also get access to the archives and that is worth the money of the subscription. You can do a lot of research with the archives.
Next here the title of the book with Infographics for literature. I actually bought the book because it was sort of funny, but now I see it as a great example of different kinds of infographic designs.
Good night, dear friends,
Sutton Casey
Grand Junction High School
Grand Junction, Colorado
Sutton-this is so cool!Thank you for the embedded graphics!!And you told me about Upfront the other day so I am sold. As an
ReplyDeleteEnglish LA teacher I follow Kelly Gallagher so will enjoy his work.
Thank you for telling us about this book! I went straight to Amazon to order it and fell into a black hole because there's a whole SERIES of these. So I bought all of them. Oops. I am excited to look at them.
ReplyDeleteKeith, I saw all those other books and am now going to have to order them, too. I didn't know I needed them until now.
DeleteThis is awesome! I really need to start building up my journalism resource library at work. I'm going to get the infographic book for sure.
ReplyDeleteVictoria Tijerina
Moises E Molina High School
Dallas, Texas