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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 Conversation

Handout

Handout 2.1. Beer Street and Gin Lane

Handout 2.2. Two Views of Children’s Play

*Handout 2.3. Intelligence: A Brief History (Excerpt) by Anna T. Cianciolo and Robert J. Sternberg

Handout 2.4. Noticing the Conversation

Handout 2.5. More Practice Noticing the Conversation

Handout 2.6. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (Excerpt)

Handout 2.7. The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln

*Handout 2.8. “A suppuration of blood” From The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Excerpt) by Siddhartha Mukherjee

*Handout 2.9. “Blood, Toils, Tears and Sweat” Speech by Winston Churchill

Video

Video 2.1. Topic–Comment Strategy: Bruegel’s Children’s Games

Video 2.2. Teaching Parody: Bruegel’s Children’s Games

Video 2.3. Noticing the Conversation: Reading the Gettysburg Address From Two Perspectives

Video 2.4. Noticing the Conversation: How Does Lincoln Reveal His Theme?

 

*Includes Sample Think-Aloud

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