NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
ERIC Number: EJ1312429
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 5
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0034-0561
EISSN: N/A
Available Date: N/A
Where Does Information Come From?: Visibility in Author's Notes for Emergent Information Literacy
Mertens, Gillian E.; Adams, Brittany
Reading Teacher, v75 n2 p227-231 Sep-Oct 2021
Information literacy is a critical 21st-century skill, yet young readers rarely have opportunities to consider where information comes from. In this Teaching Tip, the authors use author's notes in nonfiction storybooks to promote student awareness of authorship. The author's visibility in author's notes varies along a continuum from invisible (authors discussing the subject of the text using third-person pronouns) to visible (authors describing a personal relationship to the text). Using information literacy tenets to focus on how narrative nonfiction is created, this article highlights two specific examples of author's notes, as well as pragmatic questions related to various levels of author visibility for teachers to ask as they support their students' developing information literacy.
Wiley. Available from: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030. Tel: 800-835-6770; e-mail: cs-journals@wiley.com; Web site: https://www.wiley.com/en-us
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A
Author Affiliations: N/A