Teaching Informational Text: A Complete Interactive Whiteboard Curriculum Everything You Need to Target and Teach Key Text Structures and Features to Help Students Meet Higher Standards

by Blevins, Wiley; Boynton, Alice

• ISBN13: 9780545550376
• ISBN10: 0545550378
• Edition: Looseleaf
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-02-01
• Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources

Summary

Today’s students have to read and comprehend greater amounts of informational text, but navigating the various structures and features of nonfiction text is not easy. This systematic program teaches students how to interpret text structures, such as cause/effect, compare/contrast, and sequence, as well as text features, such as maps, charts, and graphs. Includes ready-to-use interactive whiteboard lessons, engaging anchor videos, leveled complex texts, graphic organizers, assessments, and more!
Includes online access to digital content.

Author Biography

Wiley Blevins is an early reading specialist who holds a M. Ed. from Harvard. He taught elementary school in both the United States and South America, and was Director of Special Projects for Scholastic in New York City. Wiley has written and edited many phonics and reading materials, and is the author of Phonics from A-Z and Teaching Phonics and Word Study in the Intermediate Grades, to name a few. He is also coauthor with Alice Boynton on several professional resources covering specific grade levels: Teaching Students to Read Nonfiction and Nonfiction Passages with Graphic Organizers for Independent Practice. He lives in New York City.
Alice Boynton has taught professional development courses at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, and at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York City. She is a writer and editor with 15 years of experience in the elementary classroom. She is coauthor with Wiley Blevins on several Scholastic professional resources, including Teaching Students to Read Nonfiction and Nonfiction Passages with Graphic Organizers for Independent Practice. Alice is also the author of numerous children’s stories.