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Teaching Nonfiction Reading Strategies

Student’s ability to navigate and understand expository text is fundamental to their academic and real world success. This session will provide classroom-ready strategies that help students cope with the challenges and complexities of nonfiction genre, texts, and formats ensuring all students become confident and competent readers of information in every content area.

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Teaching Nonfiction Reading Strategies

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  1. Teaching for Understanding in Nonfiction

  2. Non Fiction… the Good the Bad the Ugly

  3. TheGood ©Angela Maiers, 2007

  4. Girls, Too!!!! ©Angela Maiers, 2007

  5. TheBad ©Angela Maiers, 2007

  6. TheUgly

  7. 73% 3F/P levels below fiction • 15% 3 GRADE LEVELS below fiction • 6% Struggled with decoding • (Boys=Girls) • Stead, 2007

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  9. We can sooo change that!

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  11. Thinking about Fiction

  12. “Book” Story “Life” Story (THEME) Fiction = Stories of Life

  13. The Orange

  14. BIG IDEA (Whole text) Main Idea ( Section Level)

  15. Main Idea vs. Big Idea

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  21. BIG IDEAS in Nonfiction

  22. Purpose • Intention • Motivation • Bias • Viewpoint • Credibility • Reliability • Craft

  23. Bears 1. 2. ©Angela Maiers, 2006

  24. P E N G U I N F R A N L A N T I N G

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  27. Captions Labels Graphics Images Font Color Layout TOC Glossary Headings

  28. Reading “Blindly” The icy ghost appeared to him from out of the dark as he surveyed from his position atop the graceful lady of steal. “Yet eyes deceive, Captain Smith thought and failed to stop her momentum. Moments later the festive celebration of the two thousand was smashed to bits. Carpathia, 58 miles away, caught the SOS and race to the rescue of the fortunate seven hundred and five, one of whom remarked, years later, when turned her deck away from us as though to hide from our sight the awful spectacle.” ©Angela Maiers, 2006

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  34. Steve Moline’s Website K-8visual.info./ ©Angela Maiers, 2006

  35. Home | What is visual literacy? | Examples of visual texts |Using visual literacy | Assessing visual literacy | Books for children | Books for teachers | Free materials for teachers | Seminars & workshops | Aboutus | Contact us | Copyright| • Examples of visual texts • View an example of: • Block diagram with cutaways <NEW> • Cutaway diagram with detail • Diagram with color coding • Exploded diagram • Flow charts • Special: What are maps for? • Storyboard • Table • Tree diagram We usually add a new Visual Literacy Example to this page each month. • Other examples of visual texts on this site: • Bar graph or "bar chart" • Block diagram • Calendar • Cartogram • "Chart" (see table or graph) • Column graph • "Concept map" (see web) ©Angela Maiers, 2006

  36. Visual Text: Cross Section ©Angela Maiers, 2006

  37. Text Structures Following the Road to Meaning

  38. Description • Compare/Contrast • Cause and Effect • Chronology/Sequence • Procedural • Persuasive • Question/Answer • Problem/Solution ©Angela Maiers, 2006

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