Exploring Nonfiction: Social Studies

Exploring Nonfiction: Social Studies
Author: Teacher Created Materials Staff
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Content area reading
ISBN:

Program based on common standards for nonfiction reading with high-interest reading materials and lessons relating to social sciences. Teaches skills necessary to read nonfiction effectively. Content area literacy is defined as the level of reading and writing skill necessary to read, comprehend and react to appropriate instructional materials in a given subject, social sciences. Program integrates listening, speaking, reading, writing, visualizing, and thinking for students to learn using muliple modalities.

Exploring Informational Texts

Exploring Informational Texts
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.

Sea Shapes

Sea Shapes
Author: Suse MacDonald
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1998
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780152017002

Shows the different shapes of animals to be found in the ocean.

Explorations in Nonfiction Writing, Grade K

Explorations in Nonfiction Writing, Grade K
Author: Anthony Stead
Publisher: Firsthand Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9780325031422

While learning how to locate, access, interpret, record, publish, and share information, students also consider ways to activate their voice and make their nonfiction writing clearer, more authoritative, and better organized. Designed around a consistent mix of explorationssome are extended units of study that engage primary writers in the complete writing process and others are targeted minilessons that expose students to various forms of nonfiction writingExplorations in Nonfiction Writing is easily adaptable and will support you whether you are integrating nonfiction writing into your established literacy block or developing a new nonfiction writing program that supports your entire academic curriculum.

Exploring Nonfiction with Young Learners

Exploring Nonfiction with Young Learners
Author: Darla Miner
Publisher: R&L Education
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2012-02-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1610484959

Exploring Nonfiction with Young Learners explores the four basic nonfiction structures that the youngest learners are most likely to encounter: descriptive, recount/collection, procedural, and explanatory texts. This book also includes information to help teach four, more complex structures that younger readers sometimes encounter during read-alouds: comparison, response, causation/cause and effect, and persuasive genres. This book is organized to help plan lessons using each type of nonfiction structure. Strategies and suggestions for activities to use before, during and after reading are included. Templates and graphic organizers are also provided in order to facilitate planning, and offer additional resources. Detailed information about each text structure as well as mentor texts to illustrate each type is included. Text structures, as well as text access features, are defined and located in easy reference charts. Whole class and small group planning ideas are included throughout the book in order to allow for differentiation. Additionally, assessment ideas, sample think-alouds, lesson planning templates, and sample lessons with completed graphic organizers are included for each text structure.