Exploring the Nonfiction Genre -- The Importance of Informational Literacy -- Limitations of Textbooks -- Advantages of Nonfiction -- Trends in Recent Nonfiction -- Understanding the Forms of Nonfiction -- Multicultural Nonfiction -- Choosing Nonfiction Trade Books -- Guidelines for Book Selection -- Resources for Nonfiction Book Selection -- Matching Readers with Books -- Bringing Nonfiction into the Classroom -- Reading Nonfiction Aloud -- Making Nonfiction Part of the Classroom Reading Environment -- Organizing the Classroom for Nonfiction Literature Study -- Helping Students Read Nonfiction Strategically -- Strategic Readers of Informational Text -- Understanding Factual Texts -- Activating Prior Knowledge -- Understanding Expository Text Structures -- Strategy Lessons for Teaching Text Structures -- Guiding Student Response to Nonfiction -- Understanding Response to Literature -- Bringing Response into the Classroom -- Oral Responses to Nonfiction Literature -- Written Responses to Nonfiction -- Content Area Learning through Nonfiction -- Nonfiction Trade Books for Content Area Teaching -- Inquiry in the Content Area Classroom -- Orbis Pictus Award-Winning Books.
Summary
Provides teachers of kindergarten through sixth grade with practical strategies for using nonfiction trade books in language arts and content area instruction.