When we open the gates to nonfiction inquiry, we open our thinking and expect the unexpected, making reading discoveries, research discoveries, and writing.
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- Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing, and Research in Grades - Stephanie Harvey - Google Книги
- Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing, and Research in Grades 3-8
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She encourages students to have non-fiction notebooks for authentic questions and learning. She knows that classrooms that value wonder and curiosity will be an enriching experience for students' non-fiction inquiry. Stephanie encourages a daily collaboration with the librarian so students see the library as as a research heaven, an essential place to gather articles and information to answer authentic questions.
Students can be encouraged to be the "curators" of research projects, keeping a box full of "collected" material to help students grow their knowledge around a topic. She encourages the use of primary sources, including interviewing "experts" in the field of a child's topic. I particularly like Stephanie's establishment of the beginning of the year routines that foster inquiry and learning - engaging teachers and parents who are "experts" in a variety of topics, who can be tapped by students throughout the year as they learn through inquiry.
Stephanie gives teachers ideas how to stock their classrooms so that they will be inquiry-learning ready, tape recorders, cameras, class roladexes, boxes for curatorial collections, clipboards, computers, sticky notes, notecards, catalogues, brochures, newsletters, crates of non-fiction books by genre, overhead projectors, magazines, newspapers, reference books, trade books, postal supplies, dictionaries, thesauruses, etc. Stephanie teaches teachers how non-fiction reading can be "coded" and annotated with sticky notes, just like fiction.
Last, but not least, Stephanie teaches teachers the mini-lessons and expectations for students to write authentic, compelling non-fiction - to glue their thoughts together with accuracy, voice, writing with nouns and verbs, revising, editing, and promoting clarity in order to inform others. Students in the lower grades are like sponges.
Students need much practice each school day reading and writing, integrating science and social studies with literacy. In education today, much information is being disseminated to teachers about "standards. This is, what I feel, is a missing link in education today.
Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing, and Research in Grades - Stephanie Harvey - Google Книги
Nonfiction Matters is one of the essential books that help teachers enable students to reach and even exceed the standards, while learning to love school in the process. School should not be places to just prepare for the tests; they should be places where students become authentically engaged in the learning process. Jul 23, Jestine Myers rated it really liked it. I found this book on my own and decided it might be a good book to study with the current focus on nonfiction reading in schools. I really enjoyed reading through and making notes about it.
This book explores the process of guiding students through and inquiry-based nonfiction project where they discover an area of interest, research that area, and create a project with their findings. The process in this book outlines a thorough method that goes far beyond finding a few books and writing a 5-pa I found this book on my own and decided it might be a good book to study with the current focus on nonfiction reading in schools.
The process in this book outlines a thorough method that goes far beyond finding a few books and writing a 5-paragraph essay from some notecards. I am looking forward to slowly incorporating her strategies into my classroom practices in order to assist students in enjoying and taking part in their own learning. May 05, Ann Haefele rated it liked it. Good ideas regarding reading and writing nonfiction in the classroom, with many lessons that can carry over to library instruction. But because it is copyright, the resources suggested for use are a bit dated. There is a wealth of new nonfiction since the advent of common core that can be added to the suggested lessons.
See your school librarian!! One complaint is that through the many chapters about using nonfiction for research projects, rarely except for Chapter 8 was the school librari Good ideas regarding reading and writing nonfiction in the classroom, with many lessons that can carry over to library instruction. One complaint is that through the many chapters about using nonfiction for research projects, rarely except for Chapter 8 was the school librarian mentioned. Research is best accomplished when there is collaboration between the classroom teacher and librarian Sep 22, Mary rated it liked it Recommends it for: Dug this out of the Professional Development bucket at my school on the advice of my co-op.
I'll be using a lot of the frameworks in chapters seven through ten to throw together a nonfiction unit around the topic of Columbia's expansion into Harlem, a cultural event about which my students and I have very strong feelings but know very few facts. I'm hoping the subject will get them excited enough to to some hard-core research with me.
Sep 07, Kim rated it really liked it Shelves: Dated technology references, but still worth the read. The author includes lots of ways to write about and respond to the reading of nonfiction texts. Theres No One Way. Getting It Down on Paper. The Wide Range of Possibilities. Managing Nonfiction Inquiry Projects. Observation and Secondary Research. Going Directly to the Source.
From Passion to Presentation. It is a great overall read. I was even thinking about re-selling it but decided to add it to my education studies collection. One person found this helpful 2 people found this helpful. This book does a great job of exploring the topic of nonfiction. It gives teachers strategies for engaging students in inquiry based learning and projects of their choice.
It also explains well the purposes for reading nonfiction and how narrative is different from expository text. This book does an excellent job of helping teachers know how to model activating and formulating questions. It also gives great resource lists for primary and secondary resources. Some of the secondary resources for internet usage and links are a bit dated. The book was published in and this was right when internet was first booming as a resource.
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There are some links that I found are no longer working or valid, and I think most teachers now are fairly comfortable with the internet. I like how it gave a list in the back with wonderful nonfiction book resources. I truly enjoyed reading this book and look forward to integrating the strategies in my classroom'.
While this text is geared for grades 3 - 8, I found the information applicable to high school as well--not so much the projects and practical strategies, but the overall philosophy which is that kids need to read more nonfiction and they need better choices in order to write good nonfiction. Most of the reading students will encounter after high school is nonfiction newspapers, manuals, trade magazines, memos, etc.
We are not adequately preparing them for a nonfiction world. As far as writing, it's no secret that student's tend to write more powerful fiction or personal narrative than they do essay or research.
According to Harvey, that's because we continue to assign them topics they simply do not care about. Or we allow them to choose, but we don't adequately help them to seek out those topics they will become invested in, and as a result, they choose quickly just to get going on a project so they can soon finish it. If we want them to write powerful essays and research papers, we need to spend a lot more time helping them find the things they care about and helping them to research what they care about before they start writing.
This book makes a strong argument for more time spent with idea generating exercises and lots more student choice. We simply have to start adopting these two ideas in our schools. Love Inquiry Circles and this book just added to the companion book in a way that let me expand my inquiry circles with students. This book transformed the way we teach reasearch at our school. Our students can't wait to dig deeply into subjects and share what they've learned with others.
We've truly become a community of learners and the tools and encouragement in this book helped to make that happen. I re-read it every year. Interesting book and a lot of great ideas to use in the classroom.
Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing, and Research in Grades 3-8
Easy to implement when time is given to help plan. One person found this helpful. I am using this product for a grad class. It has been easy to read and understand.
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All my class members seem to enjoy it also. See all 19 reviews. Most recent customer reviews. Published on July 28,