Navigating Nonfiction
Navigating Nonfiction by Alice Boynton, published by Scholastic, Incorporated in April 2007, is a comprehensive educational resource designed for Grade 5 students. This 112-page worktext focuses on the increasing importance of nonfiction reading in students’ academic journeys, providing essential strategies for understanding and utilizing various text features and structures found in expository materials.
The book offers a structured approach to teaching nonfiction reading skills, featuring 30 weeks of instruction divided into ten scaffolded units. Each unit follows a clear three-step organization: introducing text features in isolation, practicing them in context, and teaching text structures while incorporating those features. Readers will find practical strategies aimed at enhancing comprehension of content area textbooks, reference materials, and informative articles, making it a valuable tool for educators and students alike.
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As students progress through the grades, more and more of their reading is done in nonfiction, or expository, materials–content area textbooks, reference books, periodicals, and informative articles on the Internet, for example. Because the main purpose for reading these texts is to acquire information, the reasons for teaching our students efficient and effective strategies for tackling this type of text are compelling. Students need explicit instruction in identifying and best utilizing the text features and text structures they encounter. If students learn to read the signposts that are guides to the organization of a particular piece of nonfiction, they will be better equipped to navigate their way through and comprehend the material.
As a complete nonfiction reading worktext program, Navigating Nonfiction will help students get the most out of this genre.
Student WorkText:
* contains 30 weeks of instruction: 10 scaffolded instructional units of 3 weeks each.
* provides step-by-step strategies for navigating nonfiction.
* follows a simple 3-step unit organization. Step 1: text feature taught in isolation. Step 2: text feature practiced in context. Step 3: text structure taught in context; text feature included. For use with Grade 5.
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