Exploring Informational Texts
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Author | : Linda Hoyt |
Publisher | : Heinemann Educational Books |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
This guide for teachers describes strategies for helping children in grades K-8 to become comfortable with and get the most out of nonfiction texts. Written by teachers and teacher educators, 25 contributions discuss such topics as the use of informational texts in daily instruction and the role that features such as captions and headings play in learner understanding. A number of guided reading and writing exercises also are presented.
Author | : Barbara Moss |
Publisher | : Guilford Press |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781572305465 |
Filling a crucial need for K-6 teachers, this book provides practical strategies for using nonfiction trade books in language arts and content area instruction. Research-based, classroom-tested ideas are spelled out to help teachers: *Select from among the many wonderful nonfiction trade books available *Incorporate nonfiction into the classroom *Work with students to develop comprehension strategies for informational texts *Elicit responses to nonfiction through drama, writing, and discussion *Use nonfiction to promote content area learning and research skills Unique features of the book include teacher-created lesson plans, extensive lists of recommended books (including choices for reluctant readers), illustrative examples of student work, and suggestions for linking nonfiction reading to the use of the World Wide Web.
Author | : Sunday Cummins |
Publisher | : Guilford Publications |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2014-11-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1462518508 |
To acquire content knowledge through reading, students must understand the complex components and diverse purposes of informational texts, as emphasized in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). This practical book illuminates the ways in which a text?s purpose, structure, details, connective language, and construction of themes combine to create meaning. Classroom-tested instructional recommendations and "kid-friendly" explanations guide teachers in helping students to identify and understand the role of these elements in different types of informational texts. Numerous student work samples, excerpts from exemplary books and articles, and a Study Guide with discussion questions and activities for professional learning add to the book?s utility. ÿ
Author | : Douglas Fisher |
Publisher | : Corwin Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2016-01-28 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 150634397X |
There is a big difference between assigning complex texts and teaching complex texts No matter what discipline you teach, learn how to use complexity as a dynamic, powerful tool for sliding the right text in front of your students’ at just the right time. Updates to this new edition include How-to’s for measuring countable features of any written work A rubric for analyzing the complexity of both literary and informational texts Classroom scenarios that show the difference between a healthy struggle and frustration The authors’ latest thinking on teacher modeling, close reading, scaffolded small group reading, and independent reading
Author | : Julia Garstecki |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-08 |
Genre | : Authorship |
ISBN | : 9781634070638 |
Presents an overview of informational texts, including the form's purpose, elements, traits, and how it expresses ideas. Original examples illustrate how the writing genre works, and tips are provided to encourage young writers' creativity. Additional features include a table of contents, a glossary of key words and phrases, sources for further research, and introductions to both the author and illustrator.
Author | : Peter Iverson |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2002-08-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780826327154 |
The most complete and current history of the largest American Indian nation in the U.S., based on extensive new archival research, traditional histories, interviews, and personal observation.
Author | : Elaine M. Bukowiecki |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2016-11-14 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1442235152 |
This book presents a myriad of instructional techniques and critical literacy strategies while serving as a professional resource for inservice and preservice primary-grade teachers as they include informational texts in their classrooms. In each of the nine chapters, there is a particular topic that guides the focus of the chapter. These themes include: a rationale for incorporating informational texts in the primary-grade classroom; a discussion of the unique features of informational texts; the selection of high quality informational materials for primary readers; critical literacy; prereading, during reading, and post reading strategies; the writing of informational texts; and inquiry projects for the primary classroom. This book also contains a preface; an introduction; and an afterword, in which the controversy regarding the Common Core State Standards is discussed. Unique features of each chapter are specific standards reflecting the Common Core State Standards; strategies for all students to be successful with the Standards; transcriptions of lessons from primary-grade classrooms; examples of pupils’ work as they interact with informational materials; and a “Give It a Try” section, where a lesson plan or a pedagogical suggestion is presented for the reader to try out in his/her own classroom.
Author | : Susan Hughes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Earth |
ISBN | : 9781926818856 |
Describes some of the different and unusual school settings around the world, from an environmentally sustainable school in India to schools within caves in China and schools for the nomadic tribes of Siberia.
Author | : Evangeline Parsons-Yazzie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Navajo Indians |
ISBN | : 9781893354951 |
Ninaanibaa's heart belonged to Hashké Yił Naabaah (The Warrior Who Fights with Anger). She loved him for protecting his awee (babies), K'e(kinship), Naabeeho (Navajo people) and Dinétah (land). Hashke Yił Naabaah is summoned on a pursuit to restore peace and harmony to Dinétah. Nínááníbaa' gently placed her hand over her heart and wondered if her own heart was prepared to never feel love again. She stopped to think about life without love, the kind of love that her husband showered upon her. Leaving their sacred land was a painful decision forced upon them but Hashké Yił Naabaah and Nínááníbaa always relied on their love, prayers, and kinship in overcoming hardship, loneliness, and suffering. Will they escape the shackles of war and reunite with their children within the four sacred mountains of Dietah?
Author | : Jim Arnosky |
Publisher | : Dutton Juvenile |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : |
Slick salamanders, speedy catfish, curious crayfish, and other creatures are featured in an illustrated introduction to freshwater brooks and streams.