Teaching Students to Read Nonfiction: Grades 4 & Up

22 Easy Lessons With Color Transparencies, High-Interest Passages, and Practice Pages--Everything You Need to Help Your Students Learn How to Read Textbooks and Other Nonfiction Texts

by Alice Boynton and Wiley Blevins

Includes 15 Color Transparencies!
Teachers can help students read any kind of nonfiction with these easy lessons that introduce key nonfiction elements. Colorful transparencies present maps, graphs, diagrams, time lines and other nonfiction text features. High-interest passages give examples of description, time order, compare and contrast, cause and effect, and problem and solution--the five main ways nonfiction texts are organized. Practice pages help students apply what they've learned, giving them the experience they need to read and comprehend nonfiction with confidence.

Grades 4 & Up, 160 pages