Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Part 1. Move Over Fiction
  • 1. Through a New Lens: Informational Text at the Heart of Reading
  • 2. Read Alouds: Celebrating Informational Texts
  • 3. Shared Reading: Big Books and Overheads on Deck
  • 4. Independent Reading with Informational Texts: Making It Personal
  • Part 2. Learning to Read and Reading to Learn
  • 5. Yes They Can! Emergent Readers and Informational Texts
  • 6. Supporting English Language Learners: Building Content Knowledge and Language
  • 7. Teaching Reading Skills with Informational Texts
  • 8. Where's the Door? Finding a Path Through Informational Texts
  • 9. Prereading Strategies: Building Understanding for Content and Vocabulary
  • 10. Taking Time to Wonder: Questioning Strategies to Build Comprehension
  • 11. Love Those Visuals: Photographs, Diagrams, and Learning to Love Captions
  • 12. Text Features: It Isn't Just the Words
  • Part 3. Small Group Experiences with Informational Texts
  • 13. Guided Reading with Informational Texts
  • 14. Multilevel Theme Sets: Support for Differentiating Instruction
  • 15. Literature Circles with Informational Texts
  • 16. Move Over Guided Reading: Reciprocal Teaching Comes Back
  • Part 4. Write All About It
  • 17. Modeled, Shared, and Interactive Writing of Informational Texts
  • 18. Guided Writing with Nonfiction
  • 19. Research Strategies
  • 20. Investigations: These Are So Cool!
  • Bibliography