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  • Home
  • Programs
    • Top Reasons to use Books by JL Panagopoulos in your Classroom
  • Research
    • Historical Research
    • Thought Research
    • Know your Sources
    • Primary Source Links
    • Citing Online Resources
    • Great Lake Research Links
    • Great Lakes Chronology
    • Google Earth Files
    • DIY Google Earth
    • Videos
    • Lumbering Background and Links
  • Writing Fun!
    • Simple Steps to Writing a Story
    • Train to Midnight Rap
    • Writing Tip
    • Grandma's Grammar
    • Students Writing: Write a Story!
    • Editing
    • Be a Wordsmith and Collect Words
    • 7 Words of Communication
    • Our Favorite Things!
    • Graphic Organizer: Create You Own!
    • The History of Language
    • Write a Haiku
    • Collect
    • Ebooks by JL Panagopoulos
  • Janie Lynn Panagpoulos
    • NEWS
    • J. L. Panagopoulos Bio
    • From the Writer's Desk Blog
    • Contact
    • Interview With J.L. Panagopoulos
  • River Road Publication
    • Traders in Time: A Dream-Quest Adventure
    • Journey Back to Lumberjack Camp
    • Erie Trail West
    • North to Iron Country
    • Train to Midnight
    • Little Ship Under Full Sail: An Adventure in History
    • Mark of the Bear Claw
    • A Faraway Home: An Orphan Train Story
    • A Place Called Home: Michigan's Mill Creek Story
    • Castle at the Straits: History of the Inhabitants of the Straits of Mackinac
    • Calling the Griffin
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Top Reasons to use Novels by Janie Lynn Panagopoulos

               Infuse Common Core Standards into the Classroom     

* Primary source documents are available to complement novels by Janie Lynn Panagopoulos. The understanding of a primary source is usually indicative of a student’s overall reading achievement according to David Coleman, one of the authors of the Common Core Standards.
* Novels by Janie Lynn Panagopoulos allow students opportunities to struggle with text, and with guidance, lets them make meaning of the text themselves.
* Students can be given smaller sections of reading and can be allowed adequate time to analyze and make meaning of the text.  Using a novel allows the opportunity to share some readings with the whole class and some time reading in small groups or individually.
* The themes and “big ideas” of history are the curricular heart of novels by Janie Lynn Panagopoulos. Students who are familiar with topics like westward settlement, for example, are more able to comprehend the text presented in a novel featuring that historical topic.
* Student immersion in a novel allows many different opportunities for students to respond in writing. Using various formats to keep the writings interesting and interactive heightens student engagement.
* In-depth character development found in novels by Janie Lynn Panagopoulos permits students to make significant connections between the people in history as well as the events in history.
* Controversial issues addressed in novels encourages students to argue their beliefs, make recommendations for action and support their opinions, both verbally and in writing.
* Novels by Janie Lynn Panagopoulos allow opportunities to supply students with segments of text to be used to answer text-dependent questions.
* Using novels by Janie Lynn Panagopoulos to integrate the Common Core Standards allows teachers to slow down the pace and deeply explore content, thereby making students better historians, writers and thinkers.



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