The Nonfiction Now Lesson Bank, Grades 4-8

The Nonfiction Now Lesson Bank, Grades 4-8
Author: Nancy Akhavan
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2014-02-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1452286469

What exactly makes The Nonfiction NOW Lesson Bank such a stand-out? If you consider the amount of instructional support, that alone is substantial enough to transform your teaching. But Nancy Akhavan happens to be an educator who has performed many roles over her career so she divests in this book just about everything in her professional vault A whole new vision of teaching nonfiction 50 powerhouse lessons A bank of short informational texts Dozens of student practice activities Graphic organizers for taming textbooks Unlike so many books, this one will live its life in actual use: dog-eared, sticky-noted, and loved.

Nonfiction Strategies Grades 4-8

Nonfiction Strategies Grades 4-8
Author: Debra J. Housel
Publisher: Teacher Created Resources
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2002-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0743932714

Lessons detailing how to read, write, discuss, research, remember, and listen to information from nonfiction sources give students the meaningful practice they need to master nonfiction comprehension skills. Strategies are correlated to McREL s Standards.

Hi-lo Nonfiction Passages for Struggling Readers

Hi-lo Nonfiction Passages for Struggling Readers
Author: Scholastic Teaching Resources
Publisher: Teaching Resources
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780439694971

Reproducible passages, grouped by reading strategies, come with test-formatted questions

Reading Nonfiction

Reading Nonfiction
Author: G. Kylene Beers
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780325050805

"Nonfiction intrudes into our world and purports to tell the truth. To evaluate that truth, we need students to be sophisticated, skillful, and savvy readers. And that's why Kylene and Bob wrote Reading Nonfiction, a book that presents: 3 big questions that develop the stance needed for attentive reading; 5 signposts that help readers analyze and evaluate the author's craft; and 7 strategies that develop relevance and fix up confusions"--Back cover.

Teaching Nonfiction Revision

Teaching Nonfiction Revision
Author: Sneed B. Collard III
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2017
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780325087771

What happens when a bestselling nonfiction children's book author pairs up with a nationally known writing teacher to discuss revision strategies? Magic. Sneed B. Collard III and Vicki Spandel blow the roof off everything you thought you knew about teaching nonfiction writing and the purposes for revision. Dozens of strategy lessons pulled from Sneed's professional writing experience followed by Vicki's classroom-savvy tips and exercises give you the nuts and bolts of teaching revision to make nonfiction writing more meaningful, useful, and enjoyable for the reader. Using a "big-to-small" process of revision, from Big Picture ideas down to individual words, Sneed and Vicki demystify revision and help students become clear, persuasive, compelling-even entertaining-writers. "With your encouragement and guidance," they write, "students will discover the joy of turning their first rough ideas into something readers cannot put down."

Strategies That Work

Strategies That Work
Author: Stephanie Harvey
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2017
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1625310633

In this new edition of their groundbreaking book Strategies That Work, Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis share the work and thinking they've done since the second edition came out a decade ago and offer new perspectives on how to explicitly teach thinking strategies so that students become engaged, thoughtful, independent readers. Thirty new lessons and new and revised chapters shine a light on children's thinking, curiosity, and questions. Steph and Anne tackle close reading, close listening, text complexity, and critical thinking in a new chapter on building knowledge through thinking-intensive reading and learning. Other fully revised chapters focus on digital reading, strategies for integrating comprehension and technology, and comprehension across the curriculum. The new edition is organized around three sections: Part I provides readers with a solid introduction to reading comprehension instruction, including the principles that guide practice, suggestions for text selection, and a review of recent research that underlies comprehension instruction. Part II contains lessons to put these principles into practice for all areas of reading comprehension. Part III shows you how to integrate comprehension instruction across the curriculum and the school day, particularly in science and social studies. Updated bibliographies, including the popular "Great Books for Teaching Content," are accessible online. Since the first publication of Strategies That Work, more than a million teachers have benefited from Steph and Anne's practical advice on creating classrooms that are incubators for deep thought. This third edition is a must-have resource for a generation of new teachers--and a welcome refresher for those with dog-eared copies of this timeless guide to teaching comprehension.

Nonfiction Reading Power

Nonfiction Reading Power
Author: Adrienne Gear
Publisher: Pembroke Publishers Limited
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2008
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1551388022

Help students think while they read in all subject areas, with the key skills of connecting, questioning, visualizing, inferring, and synthesizing.

Teaching Evidence-Based Writing: Nonfiction

Teaching Evidence-Based Writing: Nonfiction
Author: Leslie Blauman
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2016-10-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1506379060

At heart, learning to read and write analytically is learning to think well For Evidence-Based Writing: Nonfiction, renowned teacher Leslie Blauman combed the standards and her classroom bookshelves to craft lessons that use the best nonfiction picture books, biographies, and article excerpts to make writing about reading a clear, concrete process. Students learn to analyze and cite evidence about main idea, point of view, visuals, and words and structure. And best of all, your students gain a confidence in responding to complex texts and ideas that will serve them well in school, on tests, and in any situation when they are asked: What are you basing that on? Show me how you know.

Nonfiction Matters

Nonfiction Matters
Author: Stephanie Harvey
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
Total Pages: 249
Release: 1998
Genre: English language
ISBN: 1571100725

A guide to bringing nonfiction into the curriculum in third through eighth-grade classrooms, with strategies and ideas for reading nonfiction, conducting research, and writing reports.

Notice & Note

Notice & Note
Author: G. Kylene Beers
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780325046938

"Examines the new emphasis on text-dependent questions, rigor, and text complexity, and what it means to be literate in the 21st century"--P. [4] of cover.