Navigating Nonfiction

As students progress through the grades, more and more of their reading is done in nonfiction, or expository, materials-content area textbooks, reference books, periodicals, and informative articles on the Internet, for example. 

Because the main purpose for reading these texts is to acquire information, the reasons for teaching our students efficient and effective strategies for tackling this type of text are compelling. Students need explicit instruction in identifying and best utilizing the text features and text structures they encounter. If students learn to read the signposts that are guides to the organization of a particular piece of nonfiction, they will be better equipped to navigate their way through and comprehend the material.

Excited to get your kids hooked on nonfiction texts? Check out my digital resource, Reading Information Texts to help students navigate nonfiction. Readers will learn how to approach nonfiction texts, identify and utilize text features, figure out tricky words, and determine facts related to the main idea.  It includes: 

• EIGHT presentations for Google Slides™
• Interactive activities for EACH presentation. 

The EIGHT topics are: 

1.  Story Types (Fiction vs. Nonfiction)
2. Text Types (Features and Structures of Fiction and Nonfiction) 
3. Author's Purpose 
4. Fact vs. Opinion 
5. Context Clues 
6. Main Ideas 
7. Main Idea and Details 
8. Text Features 

There is NO PREP! You will be provided links to each presentation. Each presentation is made for Google Slides™ , but can also be downloaded as a PowerPoint™. The interactive activities can be presented online or downloaded and completed as printables.