Sentences with phrase «with nonfiction text»

With any nonfiction text, I expect students to be able to state the who, what, where, when, why and how.

Teaching consultant Barbara Blackburn offers 3 simple, effective tools to support English Language Learners as they work with nonfiction text.

Fiction texts should be paired with nonfiction texts on the same topic or theme.

They recommend supplementing novel studies with nonfiction texts to build students» background knowledge.

Not exact matches

This is yet another point in their similarity with the Middle Ages, when texts settled smoothly into the nonfiction category.

Tracey Maurer, writer of over 100 nonfiction books, talked with students about how she does research, works with a publisher, and comes up with ideas for her texts.

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.

And KIPP is working with Common Core, Inc., the non-profit that developed Eureka, to create a new K — 8 English curriculum for KIPP schools that is designed to build student knowledge systematically through the use of high quality works of literature, nonfiction, and informational text.

The excerpt we've posted on the Ed Next website focuses on the challenge of preparing students to read nonfiction text, something many educators nationwide are wrestling with as their states transition to the common core.

From approaching math as a visible language to using art in nonfiction text reflection, participants will learn new approaches, with an emphasis on professional learning as the launching pad for change.

Accelerated Reader 360 helps students engage with more nonfiction texts — a requirement of New Jersey's Learning Standards — and makes it easier for teachers to remediate skills based on Star Reading data.

Owl Eyes Access thousands of books, poems, short stories, and nonfiction texts, with helpful (and unobtrusive) annotations, for free.

First and foremost, under the leadership of curriculum and instruction specialist Aaron Grossman, implementation has focused on the right things — including building a coherent body of knowledge across and within grades (one of the broad «instructional shifts,» along with reading for evidence and a greater focus on complex and nonfiction text)-- that are easy to rally around and hard to dismiss as unimportant.

Every page in this colorful nonfiction reader features bright, vivid images in conjunction with descriptive vocabulary and nonfiction informational text to introduce beginning readers to various types of land.

It starts with LevelSet ™, the only Lexile ™ - based universal screener available for establishing a learner's comprehension for nonfiction text in English and in Spanish.

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Featuring basic concepts, this nonfiction book teaches beginning readers different modes of travel — from bikes and cars to sleds and buses — while incorporating informational text with colorful and engaging images that will delight early readers!

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Teachers differentiate their assignments for each of their students so they may access the Common Core State Standards, interact with complex nonfiction texts, integrate rigorous literacy skills across the content areas, and contend with complex mathematical skills, procedures, and understandings.

And with the Common Core standards» increased focus on nonfiction texts and guidance on text complexity, you might find that engaging students in texts that pique their interest is easier than ever.

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For many of us one of the greatest challenges the Common Core State Standards poses is the amount of nonfiction texts we need to now use with our...

Introduce vocabulary in the context of nonfiction science and social studies texts with multiple exposures in a variety of engaging activities

This in turn requires instructional changes, or «shifts», at all grade levels, among them: building content knowledge through content - rich nonfiction; reading, writing and speaking grounded in evidence from text; and regular practice with complex text and its academic language.

An integrated eReader with more than 25 fiction and nonfiction texts, allowing students to apply learned reading skills to an authentic text.

Our new assessment series will diagnose intermediate readers» nonfiction skill - set and provide teachers with pertinent data to drive targeted instruction for informational text.

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.

The following examples provide fiction samples paired with companion nonfiction texts and offer a series of text - dependent questions, vocabulary activities, writing assignments, and opportunities for research.

Developed in collaboration with MetaMetrics ®, the makers of the Lexile framework, LevelSet is the only assessment of its kind that measures a student's ability to comprehend nonfiction text.

It starts with LevelSet ™, the only Lexile assessment available for establishing a student's comprehension for nonfiction text in English and Spanish.

Keep your students» nonfiction reading on track with Trackers, a collection of high - interest books and teacher support materials to focus mainly on nonfiction text features and main idea skills.

Developed in conjunction with MetaMetrics ®, creators of the Lexile Framework for Reading, LevelSet is the only universal screener for the reading comprehension of nonfiction text in both English and Spanish.

With 80 % of the short texts and chapter books being nonfiction, there is a strong correlation to the «Reading Informational Text» and «Vocabulary Acquisition and Use» areas of the Common Core State Standards.

Students who are the «least diversified readers» (reading only one type of text with frequency) have the lowest reading literacy achievement, while students who are «diversified readers in long and complex texts» (who frequently read fiction and nonfiction books in addition to magazine and newspaper articles) have the highest reading literacy achievement.

With renewed emphasis on reading nonfiction texts, teachers face a challenge.

Clear text and engaging topics provide a fun gateway for early learners to discover nonfiction and learn about nature with guidance from adults or on their own.

LevelSet is the only universal screener for the reading comprehension of nonfiction text in both English and Spanish with interim tests and a post-test to provide a summative measure of student growth for the semester or school year.

Reading secondary nonfiction texts in combination with a primary text almost certainly increases the absorption rate — how quickly students assimilate knowledge as they read — of students reading that text.

To deepen students» understanding of the American Revolution teachers can create five stations with different resources (e.g., nonfiction text, artifacts, statistics, images, diary entry).

«We teach so much around nonfiction text in history that I thought there was a lot of opportunity to get somewhere with Common Core if we had the chance to work with it.»

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Detailed teaching of 13 key Spotlight Skills through lively starter videos and computer - based informational text analysis provides a complete nonfiction curriculum with a carefully curated collection of informational text for each grade level, K to 5.

With rhythmic text and delicate retro-esque illustrations from Jamey Christoph, Up in the Leaves is an excellent nonfiction read aloud offering several opportunities for further classroom exploration.

What makes me want to keep reading a nonfiction text is the encounter with a surprising, well - stocked mind as it takes on the challenge of the next sentence, paragraph, and thematic problem it has set for itself.

Compare The Night Worker to Sherri Duskey Rinker's Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site (2011), or for lessons on the different features of fiction and nonfiction texts, pair it with the First Facts: Transportation Zone series title Bulldozers in Action, by Peter Brady (2012).

For nonfiction books, or any book with mentions of books titles, songs, plays or website addresses, the treatment of the text should be consistent throughout.

Authors should send us their manuscripts with all the text they would like included in a single file: copyright page, other books by author, dedication and / or acknowledgements, table of contents (nonfiction, if any), foreword and / or preface (if any), chapters (main document), teaser chapter of next book (optional), and author bio.

And are used for books with complex designs, for e.g. Children books, nonfiction like cook book and text books, travel guides etc..

The variety of titles chosen that fall into this category ensure the style of literature is represented along with nonfiction and text formats.

«This nonfiction picture book glows with beautiful acrylic illustrations showing underwater, shoreline, and sea scenes... This total package of text and illustration attracts readers and provides facts for budding conservationists...» — Library Media Connection