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Exploring Nonfiction: Building Reading Skills with Key Features

Discover how to effectively teach children to explore and comprehend nonfiction texts with this informative guide. Learn the essential features of nonfiction books and how to distinguish them from fiction. Gain insights into text organization and elements such as table of contents, glossary, index, titles, captions, and more. Enhance reading comprehension by encouraging active engagement and note-taking. Foster critical thinking by making predictions and analyzing information. Engage students in discussions to differentiate between fiction and nonfiction. Utilize visual aids like Venn diagrams to illustrate similarities and differences. Empower young readers with the tools to navigate and extract valuable knowledge from nonfiction materials.

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Exploring Nonfiction: Building Reading Skills with Key Features

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  1. Reading nonfiction

  2. “Just as we teach children to use math manipulatives by giving them “free explore” what they are and how they work, giving them time to explore nonfiction provides them (and you) with experiences to build on when more explicit teaching begins.” p143

  3. most nonfiction books are organized so that it is easy for readers to find information.

  4. Model Differences Between Fiction and Nonfiction

  5. Fiction: setting, characters, a problem, some events that connect to the problem, and a resolution

  6. Nonfiction “Just as with narrative text, teaching children that expository text has predictable characteristics and features they can count on before they read allows them to construct meaning more easily as they read.” P145

  7. What to look for when reading Nonfiction Text Features

  8. Table of Contentsenforce how It tells us the order in which the information can be found. Table of Contents Chapter 1........... 4 Chapter 2...........12 Chapter 3........... 20 Chapter 4........... 38 Chapter 5........... 57

  9. Glossarythe dictionary of important words found in a book. Stress The words are arranged in alphabetical order.

  10. Indexis a list of subjects. It is arranged in alphabetical order with page numbers. It is usually found in the back of the book.

  11. Titles and Subheadings Explain how these tell readers what you will be reading about.

  12. Maps

  13. Labels

  14. Photographs These help with our Mental Images.

  15. Captions Alabama State Capital in Montgomery

  16. BOLDED WORDS and Highlighted words show the reader that it is important.

  17. Nonfiction reading is reading to LEARN.

  18. When Reading nonfiction …. Slow down so you can think about information.

  19. Reading nonfiction is like a slideshow where you have to stop and think after each slide.

  20. STOP frequently and take notes.

  21. “Students do not make predictions about the kinds of things they expect will happen. They make predictions about the kinds of things they expect to learn.”

  22. Release Responsibility: Ask children to bring a nonfiction book they haven’t read and make predictions about what they expect to learn. Spread fiction AND nonfiction materials and with partners or in a group have them discuss, “Is this fiction or nonfiction? How do we know?” Create a large Class Venn Diagram that shows the two books’ differences and similarities. (ANCHOR CHART)

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