Exploring Informational Texts: From Theory to Practice

by Linda Hoyt, Margaret E. Mooney, Brenda Parkes

Grades K-8 Informational texts comprise the majority of printed material adults read. Yet children are underprepared for meeting the challenges posed by such texts. Linda Hoyt, Margaret Mooney, and Brenda Parkes offer some solutions. Exploring Informational Texts brings together numerous educators who provide a theoretically sound rationale and the practical wherewithal for using guided reading and writing as a primary strategy for navigating nonfiction. By assembling a wealth of material by many voices from many places, editors Hoyt, Mooney, and Parkes create a montage of ideas and suggestions. These practices and strategies for using informational texts get young readers and writers off to a good start and keep them going from kindergarten through middle school. Teachers will be intrigued by specific lesson ideas and questions, Get an inside view of real teaching moments through vignettes and classroom examples. Find tools to empower your students tomorrow. Start using or extend your efforts with informational texts. Explore the possibilities in this book.

Genres: Education

200 pages, Paperback

First published March 27, 2003

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book had some interesting ideas, and the principles are some that I would use in my classroom. However, I felt the organization of the book lacked focus (it is divided into chapters on different subjects by different authors). It would have been helpful to have some sort of progression or one that was more clearly delineated. However, if you teach and want to use more nonfiction, it would be worth at least a skim because it does have some good ideas and principles to think about and explore in your teaching.

[Neil Haner · Rating 2 out of 5]

I ended up skimming this book. It is the same information and same 10 strategies that are in every book on informational text.