8.++Bio.+&+Nonfiction

Wonderful and practical teaching ideas for using Non-Fiction in your classroom: http://blogs.scholastic.com/top_teaching/2011/03/my-march-top-ten-list-nonfiction-reading-resources.html

When you think of nonfiction, one of the first things to come to mind is the TEXTBOOK. There are many other supplemental materials like magazines, comics, graphic novels, guided reading books, Big Books, narrative picture books etc. that are nonfiction. Nonfiction books and biographies are the genres of children's literature that assist teachers in teaching the necessary content! It is vital to help children read this type of text successfully! Did you know that nonfiction books outnumber fiction in most libraries 12 to 1? Did you know that once children leave the elementary school years, over 85 % of what they read is NONFICTION! Did you know that majority of FSA reading passages are nonfiction? See below for a video about teaching nonfiction text features and a matrix of nonfiction text features that must be taught to students (and when) to ensure maximum comprehension of nonfiction material.

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Helen Keller Biography Teacher Resources:

Time for Kids is a wonderful supplemental source for quality non-fiction and current events: http://www.timeforkids.com/extras

Teacher's College Reading and Writing Project is a wonderful resource for EVERYTHING related to reading and writing. Follow them on Pinterest! []

[|David A. Adler is an excellent author of BIOGRAPHIES for elementary age students! Check out his website: www.davidaadler.com]

