Genres and Definitions
A factual book that explains or informs using real-world evidence.
What is nonfiction?
Award given for the most distinguished American picture book illustrations.
What is the Caldecott Medal?
Standard length of a picture book.
What is 32 pages?
Reading to gain information for use outside the reading experience.
What is an efferent stance?
Purposeful removal of books to control access.
What is censorship?
Stories that could happen in real life, with realistic characters and settings.
What is contemporary realistic fiction?
Award honoring excellence in African American children’s literature.
What is the Coretta Scott King Award?
Three ways a picture book can convey meaning.
What are words, pictures, and words + pictures?
Reading to experience, reflect, and feel the text.
What is an aesthetic stance?
Professional process of choosing materials to broaden access.
What is selection?
Traditional stories passed down orally with patterns and repeated motifs.
What is folklore?
Award for the most distinguished informational book for children.
What is the Siebert Medal?
Four basic elements of art used in illustrations.
What are line, color, shape, and texture?
The theory that meaning is created through interaction between the reader and the text.
What is the transactional view of reading?
One proactive step teachers can take to avoid book challenges.
What is sharing booklists with parents?
A genre that suspends scientific reality and includes impossible events or beings.
What is fantasy?
Award for books originally published outside the U.S. in another language.
What is the Batchelder Award?
A picturebook that invites children to act, speak, or interact while reading.
What is a participation book?
Researcher associated with the transactional theory.
Who is Louise Rosenblatt?
One reactive step if parents object to a book.
What is explaining educational objectives or consulting administration?
Stories set in the past that blend fictional characters with real historical settings.
What is historical fiction?
Award to a latino/a writer and illustrator for best portrayal of the latino culture experience
What is Pura Belpre Award?
Style of art emphasizing brushstrokes and texture.
What is painterly style?
Response where students imagine themselves inside the story.
What is a transparent response?
NCTE’s view: censorship seeks to ___, selection seeks to ___.
What is limit access / increase access?