Learning with Trade Books
These types of books deepen student knowledge of real people, places and phenomena of the present and the past.
What is a nonfiction book?
A communicating tools that allows teachers and students to connect and communicate with others outside of the classroom.
What is Skype?
A diagram that uses content vocabulary to help students anticipate concepts and their relationships to one another in the reading material.
What is a graphic organizer?
Requires students to play with ideas using language in a poetic framework.
What is a Biopoem?
Students mark the text with symbols that represent key concepts, questions or transition points.
What is annotations?
These types of books typically average around thirty-two pages in length and their illustrations represent a wide range of media.
What is a picture book?
A teacher-designed web page that provides various learning tasks and activities for students to complete using internet sources?
What is a WebQuest?
A procedure that quickly allows students to generate what they know about a key concept.
What is brainstorming?
Brings closure to what was learned and might require a student to summarize, synthesize, evaluate or project.
What is an exit slip?
Can aid students in organizing and synthesizing important information as they read a text and can serve as a tool for clarifying and reviewing text material.
What is a reading log?
This type of book has several genres such as fantasy and traditional works.
What is a fiction book?
Online journals or diaries that are often personal accounts or life experiences.
What is a blog?
A meaningful link between students prior knowledge and the words that are contextually related to one another.
What is a Semantic Feature Analysis?
Brief comments written by students on index cards or half-sheets of paper at the very beginning of class.
What is an admit slip?
This type of text pattern involves providing information about a topic, concept, event, object, person, idea, and so on, usually qualifying the listing by criteria such as importance or size.
What is a description?
This type of novel employs sophisticated relationships among words and images that can promote critical thinking in ways that words alone cannot.
What is a graphic novel?
An instructional framework for students that allows a regular time for a scheduled activity on the internet.
What is an internet workshop?
An activity sheet that has two columns, one for content area terms and one for definitions or other distinguishing statements such as characteristics or examples.
What is a magic square?
Helps students generate ideas, create a record of thoughts and feelings in response to what they are reading and explore their own lives and concerns in relation to what they are reading and writing.
What is an academic journal?
This type of text pattern involves pointing out the likenesses and or differences among facts, people, events, concepts, and so on.
What is a comparison and contrast text?