Nonfiction Features
Content Area Instruction
Literacy Strategies
Before, During, or Following Writing
More Strategies
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This type of nonfiction documents part of or entire life of an individual.
What is a biography.
100
The levels of scaffolding for students is the difference between...
What is modeled instruction, shared instruction, and guided instruction.
100
This strategy is divided into columns, one side to reflect, the other to write quotes.
What is double-entry journals
100
This procedure suggests that as a group, reread the completed text while modeling fluency and expression. Next, review content and teaching points.
What is a following procedure.
100
This strategy asks students to explore or respond to a topic/question, letting thoughts flow.
What are quickwrites.
200
This type of organizational structure presents information with a beginning, middle, and end in a picture storybook.
What is a narrative structure.
200
Includes texts of all genres included poetry, fictional stories, and alternative text to promote wide reading in a given topic is an example of...
What is a well-rounded text set.
200
A strategy that uses spider web like diagrams, words/phrase radiate from center circle.
What is clusters
200
This procedure suggests helping students to apply strategies for getting words on paper using analogies and words from the word wall.
What is a during procedure.
200
This strategy lets students compare and contrast topics.
What are Venn diagrams
300
The access feature provides an ordered list of sections/chapters with page numbers.
What is a table of contents feature.
300
A strategy that models how to think through reading and writing.
What is a think aloud.
300
This strategy uses illustrations from books, mounted on cards and manipulated to find sequence, BME, or retell.
What is story boards
300
This procedure suggests selecting nonfiction materials/classroom activities to stimulate discussion.
What is a before procedure.
300
This strategy uses a list of statements, determined true or false before reading, then re-examined after reading.
What is an anticipation guide
400
This type of organizational structure explores information over time of occurrence.
What is a chronological structure.
400
A collaborative group that shifts the responsibility of scaffolding from teacher to student.
What is discovery circles.
400
For this strategy each student contributes a page/section and uses the writing process.
What is collaborative books
400
The procedure suggests using the selected piece for additional lessons to teach new concepts or re-teach concepts.
What is a following procedure.
400
This strategy activates prior knowledge, engages learning, and documents what was learned.
What is KWL charts
500
This access feature provides an overview and specific information about a topic
What is prologue feature.
500
Students learn social skills like being respectful, staying on topic, and being flexible by participating in these groups.
What are collaborative groups
500
In this strategy students read character's lines in a script.
What is Reader's Theatre
500
This procedure suggests that teachers periodically reread the text with students and help them summarize what they have written thus far.
What is a during procedure.
500
Students can refer to this when writing.
What is a word wall.
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