How to Read Literature Like a Professor: For Kids - Thomas C. Foster

How to Read Literature Like a Professor: For Kids

By Thomas C. Foster

  • Release Date: 2013-04-23
  • Genre: General Nonfiction for Kids
Score: 4
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From 29 Ratings

Description

The go-to bestselling guide to help young people navigate from a middle school book report to English Comp 101

In How to Read Literature Like a Professor: For Kids, New York Times bestselling author and professor Thomas C. Foster gives tweens the tools they need to become thoughtful readers.

With funny insights and a conversational style, he explains the way writers use symbol, metaphor, characterization, setting, plot, and other key techniques to make a story come to life.

From that very first middle school book report to that first college course, kids need to be able to understand the layers of meaning in literature. Foster makes learning this important skill fun and exciting by using examples from How the Grinch Stole Christmas to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, from short stories and poems to movie scripts.

This go-to guide unlocks all the hidden secrets to reading, making it entertaining and satisfying.

Reviews

  • how to read literature like a professor for kids

    2
    By maizenblueorca4
    this book was ok
  • Better Than the one for adults

    3
    By Jnsyr
    My daughter was assigned How to Read Literature Like a Professor for high school summer reading in her IB program. I bought the e-book and said I'd read it, too. After all, I'm a librarian with 2 master's degrees... I didn't make it. It was so dull and referenced many books I'd never read, much less that a teen would have read. My daughter finished it, but hated it. This one isn't really for kids--it's for teens. It does go off on books kids won't have read, but there are lots they will. I wish this had been assigned instead. Still a slow read, but at least relatable.

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