Nonfiction Strategies Grades 1-3

Nonfiction Strategies Grades 1-3
Author: Debra J. Housel
Publisher: Teacher Created Resources
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2002-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0743932706

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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.

What is Hibernation?

What is Hibernation?
Author: John Crossingham
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2002
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780865059870

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Hibernation is one of nature's greatest miracles, allowing animals to sleep through periods of extreme cold and heat. Interesting information describes how different animals use body fat to survive, how they can wake themselves up, and how some give birth during hibernation.

Teaching Nonfiction Revision

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

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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."

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

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

Endangered Elephants

Endangered Elephants
Author: Bobbie Kalman
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2005
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780778718604

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Elephants are the largest land-dwelling mammals on Earth, best known for their tremendous trunks and tusks. These majestic animals are in danger of becoming extinct, however! Endangered Elephants details both the African and Asian habitats of these animals, the stages of the elephant life cycle, and the social structure of elephant herds. This book also explains how habitat loss, war, and poaching have contributed to the endangerment of elephants and what people are doing to help save them from extinction.

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

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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.

Reading Nonfiction

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

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"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.

Genre Study

Genre Study
Author: Irene C. Fountas
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Language arts (Primary)
ISBN: 9780325028743

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This title is a comprehensive volume that focuses on genre study through inquiry-based learning with an emphasis on reading comprehension and the craft of writing. In exploring genre study, Fountas and Pinnell advocate a way of thinking and learning where students are actively engaged in the thinking process.

Notice & Note

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

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"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.

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

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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.