Connecting Informational Childrens Books With Content Area Learning

Download or read book Reading & Writing Informational Text in the Primary Grades written by Nell K. Duke and published by Teaching Resources. This book was released on 2003 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasingly, research supports the importance of teaching children to read and write informational text, but few resources show us how to do it well. This book fills that gap. The authors explain why it's important to weave informational text into the primary curriculum. From there, they provide a framework for organizing your time and space, and classroom-tested strategies for incorporating informational text into reading, writing, and the content areas. For use with Grades K-3.