num_pages: 312
description: Visit for special previews videos and more. Also and When students recognize that nonfiction ought to challenge us ought to slow us down and make us think then they're more likely to become close readers. That means we need to help them question texts authors and ultimately their own thinking. No matter the content area with Reading Nonfiction 's classroom-tested suggestions you'll lead kids toward skillful and responsible disciplinary literacy. Picking up where their smash hit Notice &amp; Note left off Kylene Beers and Bob Probst Fiction invites us into the writer's imagined world; nonfiction intrudes into ours and purports to tell us something about it. This crucial difference increases the responsibility of the nonfiction reader so Kylene and Bob have developed interlocking scaffolds that every student can use to go beyond a superficial We all know the value of helping students define nonfiction and understand its text structures. Reading Nonfiction goes the next crucial step-helping kids challenge the claims of nonfiction authors be challenged by them and skillfully and rigorously make up their mind about purported truths.
language: English
title: Reading Nonfiction: Notice & Note Stances, Signposts, and Strategies
publisher: Heinemann