TY - BOOK ID - 149831483 TI - Literature lures : using picture books and novels to motivate middle school readers AU - Polette, Nancy. AU - Ebbesmeyer, Joan. PY - 2002 SN - 1282404318 9786612404313 0313010102 PB - Greenwood Village, CO : Teacher Ideas Press, DB - UniCat KW - Literature KW - Picture books for children. KW - Middle school students KW - Study and teaching (Middle school) KW - Books and reading. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:149831483 AB - Motivate middle school students to become more involved in literature! Introducing hundreds of sophisticated and thought-provoking picture books on a variety of topics, this book shows you how to connect students to literature through picture books. Each title was carefully chosen, using as criteria the quality of the writing, the importance of its message, and how easily it could serve as a springboard to novels. Students will become familiar with the basic components of literature, understand idioms and analogies, recognize literary devices, and determine a text's main ideas. Each topic incl ER -