Non-Fiction Text Structures for Better Comprehension and Response

Non-Fiction Text Structures for Better Comprehension and Response

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  • Author: Gail Saunders-Smith
  • Publisher: Maupin House Publishing, Inc.
  • ISBN: 1934338389
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 130

Non-fiction text structures organize information into comprehensible patterns. Knowing how to recognize and use these structures to navigate non-fiction text greatly improves students' understanding of what they read. Gail Saunders-Smith simplifies the process by providing teachers of grades 4-8 with: ways to teach each of the five non-fiction text structures: compare/contrast, cause/effect, sequence/procedure, question/answer, and exemplification; engaging whole-class and small-group activities using written, verbal, image, three-dimensional, and technology responses; study skills for locating, recording, and using information; tools for assessing student understanding, and explanations of the text features that organize information within the text structures; and mini-lessons for whole-class, small-group, and independent application of students' text structure knowledge. Examples, photographs, student samples, and graphic organizers support your teaching, and a bibliography of professional books and resources for locating leveled non-fiction texts make this a complete, ready-to-use guide for improving student comprehension.


The Organization of Prose and Its Effects on Memory

The Organization of Prose and Its Effects on Memory

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  • Author: Bonnie J. F. Meyer
  • Publisher: Amsterdam ; Oxford : North-Holland Publishing Company
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Content analysis (Communication).
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 280


Balloons over Broadway

Balloons over Broadway

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  • Author: Melissa Sweet
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • ISBN: 0547767161
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 40

From Caldecott Honor artist Melissa Sweet comes the perfect Thanksgiving Day picture book. Let's have a parade! Meet the master puppeteer who invented the first balloons for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Melissa Sweet brings to life the inspirational story of the puppeteer who invented the giant balloons floating in the sky during the annual parade celebrating Thanksgiving. The Caldecott Honor artist brilliantly captures the essence of Tony Sarg, a self-taught immigrant with a fascinating imagination. The collage illustrations coupled with Sweet’s storytelling portray Sarg’s joy in his childhood inventions and his ingenious balloon creations that still bring delight to viewers around the country. This nonfiction illustrated book will capture the hearts of all ages. “This clever marriage of information and illustration soars high.” (Kirkus starred review)


Teaching Text Structures

Teaching Text Structures

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  • Author: Sue Dymock
  • Publisher: Teaching Resources
  • ISBN: 9780545011037
  • Category : Reading (Higher education)
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

Two professors share their research-based, field-tested approach for helping students identify and analyze the most common expository text structures in order to better comprehend the nonfiction they read. Students gain valuable experience recognizing descriptive, sequential, problem-solution, and cause-effect patterns in texts. Using graphic organizers helps them visualize and remember key information in the article. Detailed lesson plans with companion reproducible articles and diagrams help teachers confidently put theory into practice. For use with Grades 46."


Engaging Students with Poverty in Mind

Engaging Students with Poverty in Mind

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  • Author: Eric Jensen
  • Publisher: ASCD
  • ISBN: 141661723X
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 212

Drawing from research, experience, and real school success stories, this galvanizing book explores engagement as the key factor in the academic success of economically disadvantaged students.


The Reasons for Seasons (New & Updated Edition)

The Reasons for Seasons (New & Updated Edition)

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  • Author: Gail Gibbons
  • Publisher: National Geographic Books
  • ISBN: 082344273X
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

Cold winters, hot summers--year after year the seasons repeat themselves. But what causes them? Why is there winter in the Southern Hemisphere at the same time there is summer in the Northern Hemisphere? In summertime, why is it still light out in the evening? With simple language appropriate for young readers, non-fiction master Gail Gibbons introduces young readers to the four seasons and explains why they change throughout the year. Newly revised and vetted by experts, this updated edition of The Reasons for Seasons introduces the solstices, the equinoxes, and the tilt in Earth's axis that causes them, and gives examples of what each season is like across the globe from pole to pole. Clear, simple diagrams of the earth's orbit are labeled with important vocabulary, explained and reinforced with accessible explanations. Fascinating and easy to understand, this is a perfect introduction to seasons, earth's orbit, and axial tilt. Different effects on different parts of the world are included, illustrating the difference in climate between the equator, the northern and southern hemispheres, and the polar regions.


Strategies that Work

Strategies that Work

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  • Author: Stephanie Harvey
  • Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
  • ISBN: 1625310633
  • Category : Children
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 320

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.


Here Comes the Garbage Barge!

Here Comes the Garbage Barge!

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  • Author: Jonah Winter
  • Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
  • ISBN: 0375852182
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 41

This New York Times Best Illustrated Book is a mostly true and completely stinky story that is sure to make you say, “Pee-yew!” Teaching environmental awareness has become a national priority, and this hilarious book (subtly) drives home the message that we can’t produce unlimited trash without consequences. Before everyone recycled . . . There was a town that had 3,168 tons of garbage and nowhere to put it. What did they do? Enter the Garbage Barge! Amazing art built out of junk, toys, and found objects by Red Nose Studio makes this the perfect book for Earth Day or any day, and photos on the back side of the jacket show how the art was created. Here Comes the Garbage Barge was a New York Times Best Illustrated book of 2010, a Huffington Post Best Picture Book of the Year, and a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. The Washington Post said, “Cautionary? Yes. Hilarious? You betcha!” and the New York Times Book Review raved, “[A] glorious visual treat.”


Making Nonfiction and Other Informational Texts Come Alive

Making Nonfiction and Other Informational Texts Come Alive

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  • Author: Kathy Pike
  • Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Content area reading
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 228

Offering a fresh approach, this much-needed text mirrors the features that are traditionally found in nonfiction texts—illustrations, diagrams, insets, boxed materials—to help clarify and explain the concepts being presented. This is a perfect complement to reading methods courses, which includes a wealth of nonfiction titles that teachers can readily use effectively in a balanced literacy program. Packed with ideas and suggestions for the classroom, Pike and Mumper offer everything one needs to know in order to use nonfiction texts in the classroom, from using them in literature circles, and as models for writing or for research purposes--Publisher's description.


Sunken Treasure

Sunken Treasure

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  • Author: Gail Gibbons
  • Publisher: Harper Collins
  • ISBN: 0064460975
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 36

A rotting hull of a ship...lost gold...coins...gems...Sunken Treasure! Today treasure hunting is a big business. Searchers use metal detectors and sonar to locate treasure on the ocean floor. Divers use high-powered machinery to uncover objects buried in the sand and to raise them to the surface. And more than just treasures are discovered. A whole window into the past is opened up. A salvage can take months or even years. But it's worth it!