Creating a nonfiction text features anchor chart is a great way to encourage students to view a nonfiction book in terms of its parts or features, which can help quite a bit with reading comprehension! This visual tool will help students understand that they don’t need to read every word...
SOURCE:Book Units Teacher And here is one from a primary teacher: SOURCE:Mrs. Braun’s Second Grade Class What are some ways to respond to nonfiction? Once students have read a nonfiction passage, it is important for them to show what they have learned. This anchor chart lays out four di...
A book that has been so helpful in understanding text features and text structures has been Emily Kissner’sSummarizing, Paraphrasing, and Retelling. If you’re looking for more information, it may be helpful to you, too! You Might Also Like Understanding Nonfiction Text Features & Structures En...
After several years of editing books, I decided to write one of my own. I had an idea for a spiritual prescriptive nonfiction book. I found a literary agent to represent me and the book. A few months later, she directed me to write books on nonfiction writing and publishing. Before I ...
I hadn’t written with any serious intent in a notebook for six years, having finally trained myself during my MFA program to “be creative” on my laptop. I had been cursed with a stubborn certainty from the earliest years of my literary dabbling: a certainty that one could not—or ...