Patrick, Helen

Engaging young children with informational books - Thousand Oaks Corwin 2014 - xiv;214p. pb 6x9 - Classroom Insights from Educational Psychology .

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

9781412986700


Language arts (Elementary)
Exposition (Rhetoric)--Study and teaching (Elementary)
English language--Composition and exercises--Study and teaching (Elementary)

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