Helen Patrick, Panayota Mantzicopoulos

Engaging Young Children With Informational Books

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Because nonfiction and young readers are a natural fit! Common Core or not, providing our youngest readers with a thorough grounding in nonfiction is just good teaching. There's no better way to ensure our students acquire the background knowledge and vocabulary so essential to their understanding of subjects like science and social studies. Helen Patrick and Panayota Mantzicopoulos have written this book to assist you with this all-important effort. Inside you'll find: Criteria for choosing books Strategies for shared reading and reading aloud Informational writing activities Ways to guide parent involvement Real-life classroom success stories

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Corwin
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 343g
• ISBN-13: 9781412986700
• ISBN-10: 1412986702
• Artikelnr.: 38254191

Inhaltsangabe

Series Preface to Classroom Insights Acknowledgments About the Authors Introduction 1. English Language Arts in the Early Years of School: Priorities and Consequences 2. Do Young Children Find Informational Books Hard to Understand? 3. Are Young Children Really Interested in Informational Books? 4. What Should I Consider When Selecting Informational Books? 5. How Can I Use Shared Informational Book Reading in my Classroom to Build Children
s Reading Skills and Background Knowledge? 6. How Can I Incoporate Writing With Informational Books? 7. How Can Parents Use Informational Books to Support Children
s Learning? References for Children
s Books References for Research Sources Index