Full Description
Use Nonfiction Picture Books for Lively, High-Impact Lessons That Inspire Student Reading, Writing, and Response
Want to make an unbelievable story utterly irresistible to young readers?
Make sure the story's true. Nonfiction, like poetry, can have a bad reputation for being boring, but in the hands of able picture book authors, it's anything but. In Text Structures From Nonfiction Picture Books, elementary and middle grade teachers can channel the curiosity piqued from amazing true tales to help students further their reading comprehension and writing skills.
With the bite-sized format of nonfiction picture books as a starting point, this practical book shares over 40 low-prep, quick-access lessons to get students reading, writing, and responding to nonfiction texts with ease. The book provides a wealth of instruction, including:
Step-by-step lessons with multiple ways to use each picture book to prompt students' writing and analysis of the text
An extensive list of nonfiction picture book titles organized by "books about people," "books about places," "books about things," and "books about animals"
Topics, text structures, and writer's craft moves provided for each book
Lessons that introduce kernel essays, truisms, and reading response
Embedded terms, examples, and assignments to teach the vocabulary of writer's craft including refrain, polysyndeton, antithesis, and more!
Based on master writing teacher Gretchen Bernabei's instructional model, the lessons offer a lively, high-impact mix of reading aloud, discussion, modeling, student writing, and peer share. Plus, readers have access to a complete companion website full of text structure reproducibles, reading response prompts, additional lessons and extensions, student samples, and links to demo videos.
Contents
Reference Chart
Foreword
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
How to Use This Book
An overview of the Lessons
What is a Kernel Essay?
What are Text Structures?
Introducing Your Students to Kernel Essays
Introducing Your Students to Truisms
Introducing Your Students to Reading Response
Part 1: BOOKS ABOUT PEOPLE
Part 2: BOOKS ABOUT PLACES
Part 3: BOOKS ABOUT THINGS
Part 4: BOOKS ABOUT ANIMALS
Appendix
