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Living Literature - Using Children's Literature to Support Reading and Language Arts  by: Wendy C. Kasten 1.       Please include a detailed description of the text. Take into consideration that your colleagues might not be familiar with the text that you have chosen. A detailed description will include everything necessary for your classmates to gain an understanding of the text without reading it. Your job is to introduce the text in a complete way so that it is possible for others to decide when, where, and how this text might be appropriate. In general, the main purpose of this book is to show teachers how to instill a strong love for reading within each of their students, while simultaneously improving their language arts and reading skills. There’s various information about different genres of children’s literature, and what teachers need to know in order to pick quality children’s books for their classroom. Additionally, this book...

1.      Please include a detailed description of the text. Take into consideration that your colleagues might not be familiar with the text that you have chosen. A detailed description will include everything necessary for your classmates to gain an understanding of the text without reading it. Your job is to introduce the text in a complete way so that it is possible for others to decide when, where, and how this text might be appropriate. This book is designed for middle school and high school students to introduce and teach argumentative writing. This book shows students how to support claims with relevant evidence and clear reasoning that correlate with common core standards. Additionally, this book includes differences between argumentative and persuasive writing, elements of argument and evidence, and how to make arguments about policy/judgement/fact. 2.      Please explain why you chose this text. What was your ratio...