In later grades, history, social studies, and science teachers will equip students with the skills needed to read and gain information from content -
specific nonfiction texts.
Not exact matches
While in middle school, students need to read
nonfiction texts that contain many technical, discipline -
specific words, but these
texts also include many «all - purpose» academic words, such as factor, structure, function, and interpret.
Putting aside the conceit that we can align
texts with
specific ages when students» transactions with work depend on diverse life experiences, Appendix B of the CCSS provides a list of literary
nonfiction «exemplars» arranged by grade level.
Fulfilling the Standards for 6 - 12 ELA requires much greater attention to a
specific category of informational
text — literary
nonfiction — than has been traditional.
For a lesson plan designed to help teach students improve their reading comprehension, for example, you might state that at the end of the lesson, students should be able to read and understand figurative language, plot, climax, and other fiction characteristics, as well as the elements of
nonfiction, and display the ability to find
specific information in the
text.
For things that are more subject -
specific, such as the close reading of
texts and the balance of fiction and
nonfiction, I included those only in the examples for particular critical attributions.
Some students -LSB-[https://www.scholastic.com/content/dam/teachers/blogs/angela-bunyi/migrated-files/grafittitable.jpg add ideas]-RSB- right away while other students use the ideas listed to help build connections to information they learned during the lesson (e.g., a
specific fact from the
text, an idea about
nonfiction text structure, a skill readers use).