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Diving Deep Into Nonfiction: Transferable Tools for Reading ANY Nonfiction Text

by Jeffrey D. Wilhelm and Michael W. Smith

Student Resources

  1. Reader’s Rules of Notice
  2. Noticing the Conversation
  3. Noticing Key Details
  4. Noticing Varied Nonfiction Genres
  5. Noticing the Text Structures in Nonfiction Texts
  6. Why This Method Works
  7. Appendix: General Reader’s Rules of Notice for Nonfiction

Noticing the Text Structures in Nonfiction Texts

Handout

*Handout 5.1. Noticing Comparisons: Camping

Handout 5.2. Noticing Comparisons: Class Election

Handout 5.3. Noticing Comparisons: Spring Dance

Handout 5.4. Noticing Comparisons: More Practice

Handout 5.5. Cuing Comparisons

*Handout 5.6. “Troposphere” (Excerpt) by Bill Bryson

Handout 5.7. Hillocks Hierarchy Questions

Lesson 1 Link to Will Eisner’s “Prisons”

Lesson 1 Link to Bruegel's "Children's Games"

Supplementary Lesson 5 Extension: Extended Mystery Pot:  Nonfiction Chronological Narrative

Lesson 6 Sample Memes

 

Video

Video 5.1. Teaching Compare and Contrast With Think-Aloud in Science

Video 5.2. Teaching Three Rules of Structure: Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” Speech

Video 5.3. Noticing Patterns: Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” Speech

 

*Includes Sample Think-Aloud

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