Idea for Teaching Non-fiction Text Structure

 I found this on the Scholastic website and I thought these would be a great go to for the new core with all of the non-fiction we will need to be teaching.
 You can click on the link below to take you to the site!


1.  Using Text Features to Successfully Navigate Nonfiction Texts
Before I can teach students to gather information, determine importance, or find supporting details, I must first show them the tools that they will be using. Those tools are the predictable, common features of nonfiction texts. I created text feature posters to help my students recognize, name, and understand the purpose of the most common features. Below are nine of the 23 posters I created. (Special thanks to Charla Lau, the reading specialist at my school, for the idea.)  



 














Here is the link: http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/top_teaching/2011/03/my-march-top-ten-list-nonfiction-reading-resources