Teaching Students to Read Nonfiction (Grades 4 and Up)

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 160 pages
• Published by: Teaching Resources; Book and Access edition May 1, 2003
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0439376521
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0439376525
• Book Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.5 inches
• Weighs: 1.6 ounces

Product Description
22 Easy Lessons With Color Transparencies, High-Interest Passages, and Practice Pages--Everything You Need to Help Your Students Learn How to Read Textbooks and Other Nonfiction Texts
Includes 15 Color Transparencies!
Help students tackle the textbook with 15 lessons that introduce key nonfiction elements. Colorful transparencies present maps, graphs, diagrams, time lines and other nonfiction text features. High-interest passages give examples of description, time order, compare and contrast, cause and effect, and problem and solution--the five main ways nonfiction texts are organized. Practice pages help students apply what they've learned, giving them the experience they need to read and comprehend nonfiction with confidence.

About The Author
Wiley Blevins is a reading specialist and author of the best-selling Phonics from A to Z and Building Fluency.

Reader Reviews
I am using this book in an 8th grade content area reading course. It has the complete explanations of nonfiction reading, the text features, text structures, modeling examples, questions to ask after their reading, and organizers. It helps you to explain the rationale of all these different types of text. A Must for reading teachers!