The Everything Guide to Informational Texts, K-2: Best Texts, Best Practices / Edition 1

by Kathy H. Barclay, Laura D. Stewart, Deborah M. Lee

Overview

Your resource for best texts and best practices!

Kathy Barclay and Laura Stewart have written the book that teachers like you have been pleading for—a resource that delivers the “what I need to know ” to engage kids in a significant amount of informational text reading experiences.

No filler, no lofty ideals about college and career readiness, but instead, the information on how to find lesson-worthy texts and create developmentally appropriate instructional plans that truly help young readers comprehend grade-level texts. What you’ll love most:

• The how-to’s on selecting informational texts
• High-impact comprehension strategies
• Model text lessons and lesson plan templates
• An annotated list of 449 informational texts

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781452283104
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	03/07/2014
Series:	Corwin Literacy
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	10.90(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword by Timothy Shanahan
Acknowledgments
Publisher's Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. New Standards, Timeless Goals: How Informational Texts Can Help Make Every Child a Reader
A Crash Course on the Common Core
The College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Reading
Naming the Skills Involved in Reading Nonfiction and Fiction
Where Do We Go From Here?
Chapter 2. Bringing Informational Texts Into Your Teaching
Goal 1: Expose Children to More Complex Texts
Goal 2: Pay More Attention to Oral Language
Goal 3: Be More Intentional
Goal 4: Differentiate Instruction
Goal 5: Explicitly Teach From the Text
Chapter 3. The How-To's of Selecting Stellar Texts
The New Nonfiction
Evaluating Format and Visual Appeal
Evaluating Accuracy and Authenticity
Evaluating Writing Style and Appropriateness for Young Children
Evaluating Potential Content and Curricular Connections
Chapter 4. The Top Ten: Focus on These High-Impact Comprehension Strategies
Teaching High-Impact Skills and Strategies for Comprehending Informational Text
Chapter 5. Demystifying What Makes Lessons Effective: The Lesson Plan Template
The Overarching Goal of Informational Text Lessons: Rigorous Text Experiences for All Students
The Four Lesson Steps
Chapter 6. Informational Text Read-Aloud Lessons in Kindergarten
The Common Core Standards for Informational Text Read-Alouds
Using the Lesson Plan Template for the Read-Aloud
Miss Webb's Kindergarten Class: A Sample Informational Text Read-Aloud Lesson
Chapter 7. Informational Text Lessons in First Grade
What's Different About First Grade?
Mrs. Stocker's First Graders: A Sample Informational Text Guided Reading Lesson
Chapter 8. Informational Text Lessons in Second Grade
What About Students Who Are Not Reading With Grade-Level Proficiency?
Mr. Morris's Second Graders: A Model Informational Text Guided Reading Lesson
Chapter 9. Embedding Informational Texts in Units of Study
An Interdisciplinary Focus
Planning Units of Study: Who Does What?
Selecting High-Quality Informational Literature for Units of Study
Concluding Thoughts
Appendix A. Checklist for Evaluating Informational Literature
Appendix B. Common Core State Standards (CCSS) Checklists
Kindergarten CCSS Checklist
First Grade CCSS Checklist
Second Grade CCSS Checklist
Appendix C. Lesson Plan Template
Appendix D. Topical List of Informational Literature
Appendix E. Annotated Bibliography of Children's Books
References
Index

Editorial Reviews

“Kathy Barclay and Laura Stewart have done a marvelous job of providing teachers with specific suggestions for making the most of informational texts—from choosing the right texts for students, to practical and effective instructional strategies that will help students engage in close reading of these important texts, to an actual lesson format for teaching informational texts. Teaching informational texts can be a challenge for primary grade teachers. The Everything Guide to Informational Texts will help teachers and students meet that challenge!”

Timothy Rasinski

“There was a time when a book like this would have set out to try to persuade teachers. But, that’s not the issue anymore. . . . Teachers everywhere are asking themselves, ‘How do I teach with informational texts?’ Kathy Barclay and Laura Stewart provide a rich collection of practical answers to that question. Their book can—through its practical lessons, advice, and guidance—show teachers how to make informational text a joyful reality in the lives of our youngest scholars.”

Timothy Shanahan

“For K-2 teachers eager to select and teach from ‘informational texts of substance,’ Barclay and Stewart offer much guidance. With keen insight, they also direct our pedagogical attention to the oft-overlooked, but tremendously powerful, text complexity essentials—oral language development, read aloud, and shared reading.”

Jan Miller Burkins

“The book is well written, well organized, and teacher friendly. It addresses a topic—the use of informational text with younger students—that has not been sufficiently addressed in guidelines associated with the CCSS. It contains valuable lists of children’s nonfiction texts, annotated and organized by grade level. The suggested lesson format is illustrated concretely with sample lesson plans based on high-quality informational texts.”

Louisa Moats