Exploring Informational Texts

From Theory to Practice

de Linda Hoyt, Margaret E Mooney, Brenda Parkes, Margaret Mooney

This guide for teachers describes strategies for helping children in grades K-8 to become comfortable with and get the most out of nonfiction texts. Written by teachers and teacher educators, 25 contributions discuss such topics as the use of informational texts in daily instruction and the role that features such as captions and headings play in learner understanding. A number of guided reading and writing exercises also are presented.