Engaging Young Children With Informational Books

Download or read book Engaging Young Children With Informational Books written by Helen Patrick and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because nonfiction and young readers are a natural fit! Common Core or not, providing our youngest readers with a thorough grounding in nonfiction is just good teaching. There’s no better way to ensure our students acquire the background knowledge and vocabulary so essential to their understanding of subjects like science and social studies. Helen Patrick and Panayota Mantzicopoulos have written this book to assist you with this all-important effort. Inside you’ll find: Criteria for choosing books Strategies for shared reading and reading aloud Informational writing activities Ways to guide parent involvement Real-life classroom success stories