Nonfiction Mentor Texts
Nonfiction
Mentor Texts
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Actual Size
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Jenkins,
Steve
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Baby Animals
at Home
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Frost,
Miriam
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Brothers in
Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of
the Sudan
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Mary
Williams
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Gentle Giant
Octopus
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Wallace,
Karen
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Hottest,
Coldest, Deepest
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Jenkins,
Steve
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Life Size Zoo
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Earhart,
Kristin
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One Tiny
Turtle
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Davies,
Nicola
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A Walk in the
Rainforest
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Pratt,
Kristin
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Walk with A
Wolf
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Howker,
Janni
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Nonfiction/Question
and Answer Mentor Texts
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What Does a
Garden Need?
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Nayer,
Judith
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Will We Miss
Them?
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Wright,
Alexandra
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What Do You Do
with a Tail Like This?
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Jenkins,
Steve
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What’s Under
the Log?
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Hunter,
Anne
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What’s In the
Pond?
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Hunter,
Anne
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Building a
Home
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Barton,
Byron
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Literary
Nonfiction Mentor Texts
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Bat Loves the
Night
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Davies,
Nicola
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Big and Little
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Jenkins,
Steve
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Big Blue Whale
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Davies,
Nicola
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Chameleons Are
Cool
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Jenkins,
Martin
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Elephants Swim
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Riley,
Linda
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Exploring the
Deep, Dark Sea
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Gibbons,
Gail
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Flash, Crash,
Rumble, and Roll
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Branley,
Frank
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How Big Were
the Dinosaurs?
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Most,
Bernard
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If You Were
Born A Kitten
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Bauer,
Marion
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Inventing
the Truth *Read passages from this incredible (adult
level) mentor text.
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Allende,
Isabelle
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Life
and Times of the Peanut
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Micucci,
Charles
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My Goose Betsy
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Braun,
Trudi
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On The Move
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Pluckrose,
Henry
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Puffins Climb,
Penguins Rhyme
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McMillain,
Bruce
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Snail's Spell
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Ryder,
Joanne
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Sky Tree
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Locker,
Thomas
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Waiting for
Wings
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Ehlert,
Lois
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Water
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Asch,
Frank
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Where the
River Begins
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Locker,
Thomas
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Mentor
Texts to Support Students’ “Describing
a Process”/Explanatory Writing
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How to Make a
Million
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Morgan, Rowland
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How to Talk to
Your Cat
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George, Jean Craighead
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Picture This: How
Pictures Work
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Bang, Molly
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The Writing of
the Star-Spangled Banner
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Ingram, Scott
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Additional
Nonfiction Book Recommendations
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Children
often love to write about animals and favorite pets. Help them know how to craft compelling and
well-crafted nonfiction by sharing excellent nonfiction texts with them. Numerous examples are offered everyday on the
Nonfiction Detectives web site http://nonfictiondetectives.blogspot.com/2011/09/labrador-retriever-most-popular-by.html Here is a recent recommendation from Nonfiction Detectives:
Labrador Retriever: Most Popular by Jessica Rudolph
"Where are the dog books?" That question can be heard in my library many times each day. Kids love to read about pets, especially dogs. I was pleased to learn Bearport Publishing has published a new series, Big Dogs Rule. The series includes nonfiction books about German Shepherds, Great Danes, Rottweilers, and more.
Labrador Retriever: Most Popular begins with the story of Pearl, a Lab that was rescued from an animal shelter and trained to locate people in disasters. Pearl used her training to locate people trapped in the rubble after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Rudolph outlines the history of Labrador retrievers and how they were used as fishing and hunting dogs due to their good sense of smell, ability to swim, strong bodies, and their instinct to retrieve. Other sections are devoted to Labs as guide dogs, competition dogs, and pets.
Colorful photographs of Labrador retrievers in action are placed throughout the book. Young readers will especially enjoy the photos of Lab puppies playing as well as the picture of a litter of pups snuggled up with their mother. Captions, bold print, and fact boxes (printed on dogs' tags) will aid readers as they navigate the text. An extensive glossary, index and bibliography are included in the back of the book.
In this Reading Today feature,
National-Louis University/Lisle professor Sunday Cummins recommends nonfiction
books to pique students’ interest and engage them in reading:
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Adventure
Beneath the Sea
by Kenneth Mallory, photographs by Brian Skerry (Boyds Mils Press, 2010), age 9
and up – A dramatic and humorous account of how scientists lived for seven days
in a special tank 60 feet under the sea investigating a coral reef ecosystem.
·
The
Buzz on Bees: Why Are They Disappearing? by Shelley Rotner and Anne Woodhull, photographs by
Shelly Rotner (Holiday House, 2010), age 4 and up – The importance of bees to
plant pollination and various products, and the mysterious disappearance of
one-third of the honeybees in the U.S.
·
Seed
Soil Sun: Earth’s Recipe for Food
by Cris Peterson, photographs by David Lundquist (Boyds Mills Press, 2010),
ages 4 and up – A handful of dirt has more living organisms than there are
human beings on Earth! This book explores how soil, sunlight, water, and air
produce plants that keep the planet alive.
·
Bones
by Steve Jenkins
(Scholastic, 2010) ages 9 and up – Many of the cut-paper bones in this book are
actual size, others are scaled, accompanied by interesting information about
bones and skeletons.
·
Survival
at 40 Below
by Debbie Miller, illustrations by Jon Van Zyle (Walker & Company, 2010),
age 9 and up – Information about how animals survive icy winters in the Gates
of Arctic National Park in Alaska, and how climate change threatens this
habitat.
·
About
Raptors: A Guide for Children
by Cathryn Sill, illustrations by Jon Sill (Peachtree Publishers, 2010), age 4
and up – Information and illustrations on how birds of prey hunt and live, from
the bald eagle to the northern goshawk.
·
How
to Clean a Hippopotamus: A Look at Unusual Animal Partnerships by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page
(Houghton Mifflin, 2010), age 4 and up – Examples in cut-paper art of symbiotic
relationships between animals, including the Nile crocodile and birds that
clean its teeth.
·
Disasters:
Natural and Man-Made Catastrophes Through the Centuries by Brenda Guiberson (Christy
Ottaviano Books, 2010), young adult – Each chapter describes a disaster,
including 19 million Native Americans dying of smallpox and 300,000 people
fleeing New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
·
Case
Closed? Nine Mysteries Unlocked by Modern Science
by Susan Hughes,
illustrated by Michael Wandelmaier (Kids Can Press, 2010), young adult – How
modern forensic science is solving disappearances that were mysteries for
centuries.
*Source: “‘Hey, Teacher! Did You Know?’” by Sunday
Cummins in Reading Today, April/May
2011 (Vol. 28, #6, p. 24-25).
African American History Text Set
Amistad:
A Long Road to Freedom – Walter Dean Myers
Cornrows
–
Camille Yarbrough
From
Slave Ship to Freedom Road – Rod Brown
Follow
the Drinking Gourd – Jeanete Winter
Harlem
–
Walter Dean Myers
Smoky
Night – Eve Bunting
The
Sound that Jazz Makes – Carole Boston Weatherford
Sweet
Clara and the Freedom Quilt – Deborah Hopkinson
Tar
Beach – Faith Ringgold
Through
My Eyes – Ruby Bridges
Ancient Civilizations Text Set
Hieroglyphs
from A to Z – Peter Der Manuelian
Look
at the Moon – May Garelick
Then and Now – Heather
Amery
Then and Now – Stefania
Perring
Asian American History Text Set
Grandfather’s
Journey – Allen Say
Stranger
in the Mirror – Allen Say
Biography Text Set
Amelia
and Eleanor Go for a Ride – Pam Munoz Ryan
Bard
of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare – Diane Stanley
Charles
Dickens: The Man Who Had Great Expectations – Diane Stanley
Cleopatra
–
Diane Stanley
Coming
Home: From the Life of Langston Hughes – Floyd Cooper
Duke
Ellington – Andrea Davis Pikney
Eleanor
–
Barbara Cooney
Good
Queen Bess: The Story of Elizabeth I of England –
Diane Stanley
Joan
of Arc – Diane Stanley
Leonardo
Da Vinci – Diane Stanley
Michelangelo-
Diane
Stanley
Minty:
A Story of Young Harriet Tubman – Alan Schroeder
My
Dream of Martin Luther King – Faith Ringgold
Peter
the Great – Diane Stanley
Civil Rights Movement Text Set
Freedom
School, Yes! – Amy Littlesugar
I
Have a Dream – Martin Luther King, Jr.
If
a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks –
Faith Ringgold
Civil War Text Set
Aunt
Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky – Faith Ringgold
Civil War Battlefields – Then and
Now
– James Campi
Colonial America Text Set
The
First Thanksgiving – Jean Craighead George
On
the Mayflower – Kate Waters
Samuel
Eaton’s Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Boy –
Kate Waters
Sarah
Morton’s Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim
Girl – Kate Waters
The
Thanksgiving Story – Alice Dalgliesh
Immigration Text Set
A
Day’s Work – Eve Bunting
How
Many Days to America? – Eve Bunting
Immigrant
Kids – Russell Freedman
My
Grandmother’s Journey – John Cech
Watch
the Stars Come Out – Riki Levinson
When
I First Came to This Land – Harriet Ziefert
Native American History Text Set
Abuelita’s
Heart – Amy Cordova
Children
of the Earth and Sky – Stephen Krensky
Hiawatha
–
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The
Legend of the Indian Paintbrush – Tomie dePaola
Love
Flute – Paul Goble
Revolutionary War Text Set
Boston
Tea Party – Pamela Edwards
Paul
Revere’s Ride – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Vietnam Text Set
Grandfather’s
Dream – Holly Keller
Journey
Home – Lawrence McKay
Sweet
Dried Apples: A Vietnamese Wartime Childhood – Rosemary
Breckler
The
Wall – Eve Bunting
War/Conflict Text Set
Baseball
Saved Us – Ken Mochizuki
The
Bracelet – Yoshiko Uchida
The
Butterfly – Patricia Polacco
The
Faithful Elephants – Yukio Tsuchiya
Hiding
from the Nazis – David Adler
Let
the Celebrations Begin – Margaret Wild
The
Lily Cupboard: A Story of the Holocaust – Shulamith
Oppenheim
One
Yellow Daffodil – David Adler
Pearl
Harbor Child – Dorinda Nicholson
Rose
Blanche – Roberto Innocetti
Star
of Fear, Star of Hope – Jo Hoestlandt
Nonfiction
Mentors/Possible Author Studies:
Aliki
Melvin
Berger
Franklyn
Branley
Joanna
Cole
Allan
Fowler
Rita
Golden Gelman
Linda
Glasser
Ruth
Heller
Steve
Jenkins
Barnabas
and Annabel Kindersley
Patricia
Lauber
Milton
Meltzer
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Charles
Micucci
Ann
Morris
Ifeoma
Onyefulu
Jerry
Pallotta
Laurence
Pringle
Seymour
Simon
*See
www.guysread.com for connections to
many of these authors.
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Social Studies Mentor Texts
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BIORGRAPHIES & HISTORICAL
FICTION
v
Promises
to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America by Sharon Robinson
v
John’s
Secret Dreams by Doreen Rappaport
v
Rosa by
Nikki Giovanni, illustrated by Bryan Collier
v
Show
Way by Jacqueline Woodson
“Living
a Social Scientist” Life
Filopovic,
Zlata
Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Sarajevo
Hunter, Latoya The Diary of Latoya Hunter: My First Year in Jr. High
Hunter, Latoya The Diary of Latoya Hunter: My First Year in Jr. High
Schim Schimmel Dear Children of
Earth: A Letter from Home
Talbott,
Hudson Safari
Journal
Miller, William Richard
Wright and the Library Card
Social
Studies PICTURE BOOKS
v
Am I a Color Too? by Heidi Cole & Nancy Vogl
v
Brothers
in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan by Mary Williams
v
The Golden Rule by Ilene Cooper
v
Is There a Human Race? by Jamie Lee Curtis
v
How
Much? Visiting Markets Around the World by Ted Lewin
v
Keep Climbing, Girls by Beah Richards
v The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq by
Jeanette Winter
v The Milestone Project by
Richard Steckel and Michele Steckel
v
My
Librarian Is a Camel by Margriet Ruurs
v Tsunami: Helping Each Other by Ann
Morris and Heidi Larson
v What a
Family by Rachel Isadora
v
Why War is Never a Good Idea by Alice Walker
African
American History
Amistad: A Long Road to Freedom – Walter Dean Myers
Cornrows – Camille Yarbrough
From Slave Ship to Freedom Road – Rod Brown
Follow the Drinking Gourd – Jeanete Winter
Harlem – Walter Dean Myers
Smoky Night – Eve Bunting
The Sound that Jazz Makes – Carole Boston Weatherford
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt – Deborah Hopkinson
Tar Beach – Faith Ringgold
Through My Eyes – Ruby Bridges
Ancient
Civilizations
Hieroglyphs from A to Z – Peter Der Manuelian
Look at the Moon – May Garelick
Asian
American History
Grandfather’s Journey – Allen Say
Stranger in the Mirror – Allen Say
Biographies
Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride – Pam Munoz Ryan
Bard of Avon: The Story of William
Shakespeare –
Diane Stanley
Charles Dickens: The Man Who Had
Great Expectations –
Diane Stanley
Cleopatra – Diane Stanley
Coming Home: From the Life of Langston
Hughes – Floyd
Cooper
Duke Ellington – Andrea Davis Pikney
Eleanor – Barbara Cooney
Good Queen Bess: The Story of
Elizabeth I of England –
Diane Stanley
Joan of Arc – Diane Stanley
Leonardo Da Vinci – Diane Stanley
Michelangelo- Diane Stanley
Minty: A Story of Young Harriet
Tubman – Alan
Schroeder
My Dream of Martin Luther King – Faith Ringgold
Peter the Great – Diane Stanley
Civil
Rights Movement
Freedom School, Yes! – Amy Littlesugar
I Have a Dream – Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks –
Faith Ringgold
Civil
War
Aunt Harriet’s Underground
Railroad in the Sky –
Faith Ringgold
Colonial
America
The First Thanksgiving – Jean Craighead George
On the Mayflower – Kate Waters
Samuel Eaton’s Day: A Day in the
Life of a Pilgrim Boy –
Kate Waters
Sarah Morton’s Day: A Day in the Life of a
Pilgrim Girl – Kate Waters
The Thanksgiving Story – Alice Dalgliesh
Immigration
A Day’s Work – Eve Bunting
How Many Days to America? – Eve Bunting
Immigrant Kids – Russell Freedman
My Grandmother’s Journey – John Cech
Watch the Stars Come Out – Riki Levinson
When I First Came to This Land – Harriet Ziefert
Native
American History
Abuelita’s Heart – Amy Cordova
Children of the Earth and Sky – Stephen Krensky
Hiawatha – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Legend of the Indian
Paintbrush –
Tomie dePaola
Love Flute – Paul Goble
Revolutionary
War
Boston Tea Party – Pamela Edwards
Paul Revere’s Ride – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Vietnam
Grandfather’s Dream – Holly Keller
Journey Home – Lawrence McKay
Sweet Dried Apples: A Vietnamese
Wartime Childhood –
Rosemary Breckler
The Wall – Eve Bunting
War/Conflict
Baseball Saved Us – Ken Mochizuki
The Bracelet – Yoshiko Uchida
The Butterfly – Patricia Polacco
The Faithful Elephants – Yukio Tsuchiya
Hiding from the Nazis – David Adler
Let the Celebrations Begin – Margaret Wild
The Lily Cupboard: A Story of the Holocaust – Shulamith
Oppenheim
One Yellow Daffodil – David Adler
Pearl Harbor Child – Dorinda Nicholson
Rose Blanche – Roberto Innocetti
Star of Fear, Star of Hope – Jo Hoestlandt
Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust
– Eve Bunting
Supportive
Web Resources
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Content Area Learning Resources
Recent article
highlight “Nonfiction as a Laughing
Matters”
http://inkrethink.blogspot.com/2012/10/nonfiction-as-laughing matter.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FZiJh+%28I.N.K.%29 |
Literacy Specialist - Researching for nonfiction writing and persuasive writing
http://www.literacyspecialists.com/content/publish/nonfiction.shtml
Internet Resources on
Nonfiction Writing
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Association for Supervision and Curriculum
Development (ASCD): http://shop.ascd.org/search_results.cfm
The
Leadership & Learning Center:
www.makingstandardswork.com/Clients/BestPracticesArchive/BPCreteMonee.htmhttp://www.makingstandardswork.com/ResourceCtr/assessments/IPASsampleHSMA18-CA.pdf
College
Board/SAT Information: www.collegeboard.com/prof/counselors/tests/sat/about/sat_writing.html
Mentor Texts for Us! ~ Professional
Resources
Angellio,
Janet. (2003). Writing About Reading: From Book
Talk to Literacy Essays, Grades 3 -8.
Benson, Laura.
(2004). Deep Thinking: Sustaining Students’ Strategy Learning to Cultivate
Their Independence. The Colorado Communicator, (27), 72 – 87.
Benson, Laura.
(2003). Drawing From Our
Well: Creating Writing Lessons from Our
Reading
Benson, Laura.
(1996). Intellectual
Invitations: Helping Readers Grow with
Grouping Practices. Colorado Reading Council Journal.
(7), 18 – 41.
Benson, Laura.
(2002). The Long and Short of
It: Short and Spirited Texts. The
Colorado Communicator.
Boyles,
Nancy. (2001). (Second Edition). Teaching
Written Response to Text: Constructing Quality Answers to Open-Ended
Comprehension Questions. Gainesville, FL: Maupin House.
Brozo,
W.G. & Simpson, M.L. (2003). Writing as a tool for active learning. In Readers,
teachers, learners: Expanding literacy across the content areas (4th
ed.; p. 253-302). Upper Saddle River,
NJ: Pearson Education.
Fisher, Douglas and Frey, Nancy. (2004).
Improving adolescent
literacy: Strategies at work. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.
Fountas,
Irene and Pinnell Gay Sue. (1998). Guided
Reading in Guides 3 – 6. Portsmouth,
NH: Heinemann.
Harvey,
Stephanie and Goudvis, Anne.
(2000). Strategies That Work: Teaching
comprehension to enhance comprehension.
Portland, ME: Stenhouse.
Harwayne,
Shelley. (1999). Going
public: Priorities and practice at
Manhattan New School. Portsmouth,
NH: Heinemann.
Hattie,
John. (2009). Visible
Learning: A synthesis of over 800
meta-analyses relating to achievement.
London: Routledge.
Gallagher,
Kelly. (2004). Deeper
reading: Comprehending challenging texts,
4 -12. Portland, ME: Stenhouse.
Irvin,
Judith, Meltzer, Julie, and Dukes, Melinda.
(2007). Taking
Action on Adolescent Literacy: An Implementation Guide for School Leaders.
Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
Kamm,
Connie. (2010). Reflective Instruction. Lead
+ Lead Press.
Kneeshaw,
K. (1992). KISSing in the history classroom:
Simple writing activities that work.
The Social Studies, 83(4), 176-179.
Knipper,
Kathy and Duggan, Timothy. (2006). Writing to learn across the curriculum: Tools for comprehension in content area
classes. The Reading Teacher (59.5.5), p. 462-470.
Quate,
Stevi and McDermott, John. (2009). Clockwatchers: Six Steps to Motivating and Engaging
Disengaged Students Across Content Areas.
Portsmouth, ME: Heinemann.
Sinatra,
R. C. (2000). Teaching learners to think, read, and write more effectively in content
subject. The Clearing House, (73(5),
266-273.
Zweirs,
Jeff. Building Understanding, Grades 6 – 12. International Reading Association.
Foundational
Teacher Resources:
·
Atwell, Nancy. (2007). Lessons
That Change Writers. New Hampshire: Firsthand/Heinemann.
·
Culham, Ruth. (2003). 6+1
Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide Grades 3 and Up. 2003. New
York: Scholastic Professional Books.
·
Culham, Ruth. (1998). Picture Books: An Annotated Bibliography
with Activities for Teaching Writing. Oregon: Northwest Regional
Educational Laboratory.
·
Fletcher, Ralph. (1999). Live Writing. New York: Avon.
·
Fletcher, Ralph. (1993). What A Writer Needs. New Hampshire:
Heinemann.
·
Fletcher, Ralph and Joann Portalupi. (1998). Craft
Lessons: Teaching Writing K-8. 1998. Maine: Stenhouse Publishers.
·
Graves, Donald H. (1994). A Fresh Look at Writing. New Hampshire:
Heinemann.
·
Heard, Georgia. (2002). The
Revision Toolbox: Teaching Techniques That Work. 2002. New Hampshire:
Heinemann.
·
Lane, Barry. (1993). after
THE END: Teaching and Learning Creative Revision. New Hampshire:
Heinemann.
·
Portalupi, Joann and Ralph Fletcher. (2001). Nonfiction
Craft Lessons: Teaching Information Writing K-8. Maine: Stenhouse
Publishers.
·
Spandel, Vicki.
(2001). Creating Writers: Through 6-Trait
Writing Assessment and Instruction. New
York: Addison Wesley Longman.
·
Spandel, Vicki.
(2001). Books, Lessons, Ideas for Teaching the Six Traits: Writing in the
Elementary and Middle Grades. Maine:
Great Source Education Group.
Supportive
Professional Resources:
·
Anderson, Carl. (2005).
Assessing Writers. Heinemann.
·
Anderson, Carl.
(2000). How’s It Going? A Practical Guide to
Conferring with Student Writers. Heinemann.
·
Anderson, Carl. (2009).
Strategic Writing Conferences: Smart Conversations That Move Young
Writers Forward (text and DVD’s). Heinemann.
·
Angelillo, Janet.
(2008). Whole-Class Teaching:
Minilessons and More.
Heinemann.
·
Bennett-Armistead,
Susan, Duke, Nell, and Moses, Annie.
(2005). Nonfiction Literacy and the Youngest Learner.
·
Davis, Judy and Hill, Sharon. (2003). The No-Nonsense Guide to Teaching Writing:
Strategies, Structures, and Solutions.
Heinemann.
·
Dorfman, Lynne. (2006). Mentor
Texts: Teaching Writing Through Children's Literature, K-6. Stenhouse.
·
Fletcher, Ralph. (2011). Mentor
Author, Mentor Texts: Short Texts, Craft Notes, and Practical Classroom Uses.
·
Fletcher, Ralph. (2010). Pyrotechnics on the Page: Playful
Craft That Sparks Writing.
Stenhouse.
·
Fountas, Irene and Pinnell, Gay Su. (2001).
Guiding Readers and Writers
(Grades 3-6): Teaching, Comprehension, Genre, and Content Literacy. Heinemann.
·
Harvey, Stephanie.
(1998). Nonfiction Matters.
Stenhouse.
·
Heard, Georgia.
(2002). The Revision Toolbox.
Heinemann.
·
Laminack, Lester and Wadsworth, Reba. (2006). Reading Aloud Across the Curriculum. Heinemann.
·
Lane, Barry. (2008).
But How Do You Teach Writing? A Simple Guide for All Teachers. Scholastic.
·
McMackin, Mary & Siegel, Barbara. Knowing How.
·
Overmeyer, Mark. (2005). When
Writing Workshop Isn't Working: Answers to Ten Tough Questions, Grades
2-5. Stenhouse.
·
Overmeyer, Mark. (2009). What Student Writing Teaches Us: Formative
Assessment in the Writing Workshop. Stenhouse.
·
Reif, Linda. Vision & Voice.
·
Rothstein, Andy and Rothstein, Evelyn. Writing
to Learn/Writing as Understanding.
·
Routman, Regie (2004). Writing
Essentials. Heinemann.
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