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When we open the gates to nonfiction inquiry, we open our
thinking and expect the unexpected, making reading discoveries,
research discoveries, and writing discoveries on our way.
"Nonfiction Matters" offers teachers the tools to help students
explore nonfiction and dig deep to reach more complete
understanding of the real world and report these insights in a
compelling manner.
Stephanie Harvey shows how students can read expository text,
engage in research, and write authentic nonfiction that is
captivating, visual, and full of voice. The inquiry projects she
describes require in-depth learning: topic selection, question
development, research exploration, reading for content,
organization, synthesis, writing to convey meaning, and presenting
findings--all skills that develop independent thinkers who know how
to make decisions, solve problems, and apply their knowledge
insightfully.
Full of practical suggestions to help you bring nonfiction into
your curriculum, "Nonfiction Matters: "
- presents strategies for understanding expository text and
conducting meaningful research;
- offers ideas for organizing and writing accurate, effective
nonfiction from idea to finished presentation;
- advances the importance of teacher modeling and guided practice
in instructional delivery;
- provides a list of inquiry tools and resources--both print and
electronic;
- suggests ways to facilitate project-based learning and assess
the projects as they develop;
- includes bibliographies of nonfiction children's books by
subject and genre and lists of recommended magazines.
Why is nonfiction almost a guaranteed success? The key to
teaching with nonfiction is passion, for children are passionate
inquirers, and nonfiction fuels their curiosity and their demand
for knowledge and understanding of the world.
Literacy specialists Stephanie Harvey and Annie Ward demonstrate
how to use formative assessments to craft targeted, personalized
instruction that enable striving readers to do what they need above
all - to find books they love and engage in voluminous reading.
Loaded with ready-to-go lessons, routines, and "actions," as well
as the latest research, this book is a must for any teacher who
strives to make every reader a thriving reader. "This is excellent.
It's really practical. Several of the chapters would translate into
CPD sessions and I also see potential in this text for ITT whether
that be in university or school-based programmes as it takes the
'what' of research into reading and turns it into the 'how' of
practice in easy to digest chapters." Rachel Clarke, Independent
Reading Consultant
In this new edition of their groundbreaking book Strategies That
Work, Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis share the work and thinking
they've done since the second edition came out a decade ago and
offer new perspectives on how to explicitly teach thinking
strategies so that students become engaged, thoughtful, independent
readers. Thirty new lessons and new and revised chapters shine a
light on children's thinking, curiosity, and questions. Steph and
Anne tackle close reading, close listening, text complexity, and
critical thinking in a new chapter on building knowledge through
thinking-intensive reading and learning. Other fully revised
chapters focus on digital reading, strategies for integrating
comprehension and technology, and comprehension across the
curriculum. The new edition is organized around three sections:
Part I provides readers with a solid introduction to reading
comprehension instruction, including the principles that guide
practice, suggestions for text selection, and a review of recent
research that underlies comprehension instruction. Part II contains
lessons to put these principles into practice for all areas of
reading comprehension. Part III shows you how to integrate
comprehension instruction across the curriculum and the school day,
particularly in science and social studies. Updated bibliographies,
including the popular "Great Books for Teaching Content," are
accessible online. Since the first publication of Strategies That
Work, more than a million teachers have benefited from Steph and
Anne's practical advice on creating classrooms that are incubators
for deep thought. This third edition is a must-have resource for a
generation of new teachers-and a welcome refresher for those with
dog-eared copies of this timeless guide to teaching comprehension.
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