Text Structures from Nonfiction Picture Books

Lessons to Ease Students Into Text Analysis, Reading Response, and Writing with Craft
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-0719-6348-7
Verlag: Sage Publications

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 215 mm x 279 mm, Gewicht: 1050 g

Reihe: Corwin Literacy

Use Nonfiction Picture Books for Lively, High-Impact Lessons That Inspire Student Reading, Writing, and Response

Want to make an unbelievable story utterly irresistible to young readers?

Make sure the story’s true. Nonfiction, like poetry, can have a bad reputation for being boring, but in the hands of able picture book authors, it’s anything but. In Text Structures From Nonfiction Picture Books, elementary and middle grade teachers can channel the curiosity piqued from amazing true tales to help students further their reading comprehension and writing skills.

With the bite-sized format of nonfiction picture books as a starting point, this practical book shares over 40 low-prep, quick-access lessons to get students reading, writing, and responding to nonfiction texts with ease. The book provides a wealth of instruction, including:

- Step-by-step lessons with multiple ways to use each picture book to prompt students’ writing and analysis of the text

- An extensive list of nonfiction picture book titles organized by “books about people,” “books about places,” “books about things,” and "books about animals”

- Topics, text structures, and writer’s craft moves provided for each book

- Lessons that introduce kernel essays, truisms, and reading response

- Embedded terms, examples, and assignments to teach the vocabulary of writer’s craft including refrain, polysyndeton, antithesis, and more!

Based on master writing teacher Gretchen Bernabei’s instructional model, the lessons offer a lively, high-impact mix of reading aloud, discussion, modeling, student writing, and peer share. Plus, readers have access to a complete companion website full of text structure reproducibles, reading response prompts, additional lessons and extensions, student samples, and links to demo videos.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Briseño, Kayla

Bernabei, Gretchen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Reference Chart
Foreword
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
How to Use This Book
An overview of the Lessons
What is a Kernel Essay?
What are Text Structures?
Introducing Your Students to Kernel Essays
Introducing Your Students to Truisms
Introducing Your Students to Reading Response
Part 1: BOOKS ABOUT PEOPLE
Part 2: BOOKS ABOUT PLACES
Part 3: BOOKS ABOUT THINGS
Part 4: BOOKS ABOUT ANIMALS
Appendix

Über Autor(innen)

Briseño, Kayla
Kayla Briseño has taught English all over the world and nearly every age, from elementary through adults. She has conducted professional development workshops with Gretchen Bernabei for over a decade, sharing and generating impactful writing instruction, while being a long time contributor to Trail of Breadcrumbs publications. Text Structures from Picture Books is her debut book. She and her husband, Stephen, are both self-declared book nerds, coffee aficionados, and national park fanatics. When she’s not teaching or helping teachers, you can find her creating art with her daughter, Zinnia, reading a good book, or enjoying a stroll along the San Antonio Riverwalk, where she lives with her family. Follow her on Twitter at @kayla_briseno.

Bernabei, Gretchen
A popular workshop presenter and winner of NCTE’s James Moffett Award in 2010, Gretchen Bernabei has been teaching kids to write in middle school and high school classrooms for more than thirty years. In addition to four other professional books and numerous articles for NCTE journals, she is the author of National Geographic School Publications’ The Good Writer’s Kit, as well as Lightning in a Bottle, a CD of visual writing prompts.