| Description |
ix, 319 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-319). |
| Summary |
Feeding students a steady diet of fiction is all too common in the classroom. Yet informational literacy is critical to success in school and beyond. In Make it Real, Linda Hoyt provides a practical, classroom-friendly guide to unlocking the treasures of informational texts. What's more, she demonstrates that reading and writing nonfiction can overcome the gender gap, allowing girls and boys to share interests in any subject from bugs and magnets to gardens and cake baking. Hoyt explains the use of a range of instructional strategies, including shared and guided reading and writing, to help students understand and use nonfiction material to answer questions about the world around them. She shows teachers how to make texts more attainable, scaffold vocabulary, and deal with content-specific words. Her simple suggestions help you get started and maintain your course: having students write about the visuals in their texts, infusing informational texts into guided reading, then using these texts to teach reading strategies. |
| Contents |
Move over fiction. Through a new lens : informational text at the heart of reading -- Read alouds : celebrating informational texts -- Shared reading : big books and overheads on deck -- Independent reading with informational texts : making it personal -- Learning to read and reading to learn. Yes they can! Emergent readers and informational texts -- Supporting English language learners : building content knowledge and language -- Teaching reading skills with informational texts -- Where's the door? Finding a path through informational texts -- Prereading strategies : building understanding for content and vocabulary -- Taking time to wonder : questioning strategies to build comprehension -- Love those visuals : photographs, diagrams, and learning to love captions -- Text features : it isn't just the words -- Small group experiences with informational texts. Guided reading with informational texts -- Multilevel theme sets : support for differentiating instruction -- Literature circles with informational texts -- Move over guided reading : reciprocal teaching comes back -- Write all about it. Modeled, shared, and interactive writing of informational texts -- Guided writing with nonfiction -- Research strategies -- Investigations : these are so cool! |
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Language arts (Elementary)
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Language arts (Middle school)
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English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching (Elementary)
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English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching (Middle school)
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Exposition (Rhetoric) -- Study and teaching (Elementary)
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Exposition (Rhetoric) -- Study and teaching (Middle school)
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| ISBN |
0325005370 paperback |
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