Teaching Real-Life Nonfiction Reading Skills in the K-1 Classroom

Literacy expert Barbara Pinto shares her best lessons for teaching key nonfiction reading skills and strategies to our youngest students. Fun, engaging, and developmentally appropriate, these activities build vocabulary and background knowledge as students ask questions about texts, explore text features, compare and contrast information, identify main ideas and key details, categorize information, and so much more. Complete with differentiation tips, reproducible activities, and book lists, this resource helps teachers give students the skills they need to read informational text–and meet the Common Core State Standards!