Teaching nonfiction

This teaching blog post describes how to teach reading nonfiction text structure in your classroom. It shows 5 ways to practice nonfiction text structures in informational texts. Free activities as well as paid nonfiction resources on teachers pay teachers. Includes examples of a nonfiction word wall, nonfiction text structure posters, nonfiction text structures anchor chart, nonfiction activities, reading centers, and nonfiction text structure graphic organizers with a reference chart.

Looking for ways to motivate students to read? Try these five free nonfiction articles to use in your classroom. No prep and ready to go!

Grab some ideas for narrative nonfiction activities in the elementary classroom and check out my favorite narrative nonfiction books that are perfect to use as mentor texts!

This blog post shows 2nd grade reading activities to use when teaching author's purpose of a nonfiction or informational text.

Informational writing can be a very new type of writing for many elementary students in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade. Primary students are usually used to writing in their daily journal or creating fictional

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Get MORE out of teaching nonfiction by using this awesome reading comprehension strategy called THIEVES! Come read all about it!

Before studying to become a reading specialist, I had never explicitly been taught nonfiction text structures as a student and I also hadn’t been taught the importance of teaching them to our students as an

Teaching non-fiction text features in primary grades can be fun with the right activities! Students love these engaging activities.

These anchor charts will help you answer all your students' questions about nonfiction.