Non-fiction Reading Unit

1. Non-fiction Reading Unit Introduction

2. How do capable readers make sense of nonfiction text? • How do we read nonfiction text to become aware and empathetic to the needs of our community? Essential Questions

3. Practicing nonfiction reading by studying text structures can help us… *Read faster* *Understand better* *Remember longer* Why Are We Doing This?

4. Access Prior Knowledge *What do you already know about the topic? • Examine Text Features * title, bold faced words, italics, headings, graphics (3) Predict the Text Structure of the article *hint: you can find useful clues in the title! (4) Determine your reader’s purpose and (5) determine your reading rate Before Reading Strategies

5. People read for many different reasons: List a few! When you read, it is often helpful to set a purpose for reading, or determine what you’d like to get out of a piece of writing. To get an idea of that purpose, try asking yourself questions that begin with who, what, when, where, why, and how. Reader’s Purpose

6. Connect to Community • Predict • Infer • Annotate/Summarize • *NOTE: Non-fiction requires a careful pace. If you read fiction quickly, make a conscious effort to slow down when reading non-fiction. During Reading Strategies

7. A “structure” is a building or framework. • “Text structure” refers to how a piece of text is built What is a “text structure”?

8. Description – presenting a main idea and then offering several supporting details. • Compare/Contrast – examining the similarities and differences of more than one topic. • Problem/Solution – explaining a problem and offering solutions. • Cause/Effect – explaining how one event leads to another. Types of Text Structures

9. 1. Why read nonfiction? • 2. What are 3 things you should do before you start reading nonfiction? • 3. Name at least 3 of the 4 text structures. • 4. Name at least 2 things you should do while reading nonfiction. • 5. Which will you read more in the future: Fiction or nonfiction? Exit Slip