Teaching nonfiction

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Teaching Students to Comprehend Nonfiction - Raise the Bar Reading

This nonfiction text features scavenger hunt FREEBIE uses sticky tabs to help students identify features in a variety of nonfiction sources!

Teaching nonfiction text structure so your students can successfully read and understand informational texts

Teaching nonfiction in an organized way is possible. Students will appreciate a measured approach to a realistic nonfiction unit.

Teaching non-fiction text features in primary grades can be fun with the right activities! Students love these engaging activities.

It's no secret I've absolutely fallen in love with novel studies in my classroom. Small group novel studies are an amazing way to get my kids diving into authentic texts, discussing them, and writing in response. I was noticing tremendous gains in my students' ability to think deeply and write about fiction texts. However, this knowledge was not always transferring to non-fiction texts. So I set out to get the same kind of results with non-fiction. We know students need to be spending more…

As adult readers, we know the importance of using nonfiction text features in order to help us understand the main body of text. Headings help us to make predictions while reading, and then easily find

Teaching nonfiction text features in reading...This expository nonfiction anchor chart helps students learn about text features in nonfiction texts.

Looking for ways to motivate students to read? Try these five free nonfiction articles to use in your classroom. No prep and ready to go!