Make It Real : Strategies for Success with Informational Texts

Acknowledgments ix PART ONE Move Over Fiction Through a New Lens: Informational Text at the Heart of Reading 2(8) Read Alouds: Celebrating Informational Texts 10(9) Shared Reading: Big Books and Overheads on Deck 19(9) Independent Reading with Informational Texts: Making It Personal 28(10) PART TWO Learning to Read AND Reading to Learn Yes They Can! Emergent Readers and Informational Texts 38(14) Supporting English Language Learners: Building Content Knowledge and Language 52(9) Teaching Reading Skills with Informational Texts 61(27) Where's the Door? Finding a Path Through Informational Texts 88(16) Prereading Strategies: Building Understanding for Content and Vocabulary 104(14) Taking Time to Wonder: Questioning Strategies to Build Comprehension 118(16) Love Those Visuals: Photographs, Diagrams, and Learning to Love Captions 134(19) Text Features: It Isn't Just the Words 153(11) PART THREE Small Group Experiences with Informational Texts Guided Reading with Informational Texts 164(45) Multilevel Theme Sets: Support for Differentiating Instruction 209(11) Literature Circles with Informational Texts 220(8) Move Over Guided Reading: Reciprocal Teaching Comes Back 228(16) PART FOUR Write All About It Modeled, Shared, and Interactive Writing of Informational Texts 244(7) Guided Writing with Nonfiction 251(27) Research Strategies 278(11) Investigations: These Are So Cool! 289(26) Bibliography 315