What do I teach readers tomorrow? Nonfiction, grades 3-8: your moment-to-moment decision-making guide

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Each Classroom Moment Is an Instructional Decision

Acting Without a Script: Embracing Our Role as Improvisers

How Spontaneity Is Born

How "Thin-Slicing" Helps Us Make Decisions

Answering the "What Next?" Question

Do More With Less: Building on What a Reader Tends to Do

The Four Steps in Intentional Decision Making

Intentional Teaching: Decision Making With Students at the Center

Self-Reflection Questionnaire: What Type of Decision Maker Are You?

Decision-Making Styles

Three Common Teaching Habits

Let Students Be Your Guide

Getting Started: An Action Plan

ch. 2 Decisions About Book Selection: Characteristics That Matter Most for Teaching Nonfiction Readers

Making a Choice to Read Aloud a Nonfiction Text

Narrative Nonfiction

Persuasive Nonfiction

Expository Nonfiction

Mash-Ups

5 Ways to Engage Students in Nonfiction Read Alouds

ch. 3 Decisions About Reading Notebooks: Teach Readers to Develop Thinking About Nonfiction

Why We Really Use Writing as a Tool for Understanding

Current Reality: Why Students Write About Reading in School

Writing About Reading: An Important Tool for Readers and Their Teachers

Lessons

Reality Show Model Why People Write About Reading

Fist Pump! Affirm What Students Already Do

Ask an Expert Interview an Older Reader

Powerful Proof Create an Anchor Chart of Real Reasons for Writing

Rising Tide Create an Inspiration Wall to Uplift All Students

How to Collect Thinking in Notebook Entries

Lessons

Think It, Write It! Show How to Record Thinking in a Notebook Entry

Ready, Set, Go! Create Expectations and Set Intentions

Own It! Develop Personalized Goals and Intentions

Make It Mine Teach Students How to Avoid Simply Copying Information

Get Creative Teach Students How to Take Creative Risks in Thinking

Rinse Cycle! Teach Students How to Circle Back to Clarify Thinking

Spin Cycle! Teach Students How to Consolidate Entries and Recap Best Thinking

Self-Reflection Questionnaire: Reading Notebooks

What We Might Let Go of When Asking Students to Write About Reading

Reading Notebooks: An Action Plan

ch. 4 Decisions About Discussion: Teach Readers to Push Their Thinking About Nonfiction

The Benefits: Making Meaning in Texts and Our Lives

Teach Students to Have Meaningful Conversations

Making Decisions Based on Student Conversations

Effective Nonfiction Conversation Characteristics

Lessons

Natural Navigation Teach Students How to Start and Move Through Conversations

Legitimate Listening Model How to Listen Attentively

Back on Track Teach Students How to Monitor the Focus of Conversations

Tools That Teach Use Notebook Entries to Initiate and Guide Conversations

Reading as Writers Use Author's Craft as the Focus of Conversations

Read and React Teach Students How to Start a Conversation by Sharing an Emotion

Teach It! Model How to Apply New Learning

Partner Ponder Model How to Ask Questions to Sharpen the Reading Experience

Boxes and Bullets Teach Students How to Use Ideas and Details to Organize Thoughts

Guess My Word Model How to Use New Vocabulary

Keeping It Real Model Authentic Conversation Patterns

What We Might Let Go of When Asking Students to Talk About Their Reading

Self-Reflection Questionnaire: Student Conversations

Authentic Conversations: An Action Plan

ch. 5 Decisions About Synthesizing Information: Teach Readers to Put the Pieces Together

What Is Synthesis?

Why Is Synthesis So Important?

What Other Reading Skills Fit With Synthesis?

Lessons

Put It Together Define What It Means to Synthesize

Shared Practice Model How to Synthesize Information in a Nonfiction Read Aloud

Write Sketch Chart Show Students Typical Synthesis Reading Notebook Entries

What to Look for When Students Synthesize Information

Thin-Slicing Students' Synthesis Thinking

Right-Now Thinking

Over-Time Thinking

Refining Thinking

Decide What to Teach Next: Focus on Three Main Choices

Choice 1 Name and Reinforce a Type of Thinking

Choice 2 Show a Different Type of Thinking

Choice 3 Coach Readers to Apply a Currently Used Type of Thinking in Other Sections or Books

Synthesis Across Texts

Lessons

Text Treks Show Students How to Compare Categories Across Texts

Stretch Your Wingspan Teach Students How to Think Across Texts

How's It Going? Reflect on How Synthesis Helps Readers Understand

Synthesizing Information: An Action Plan

ch. 6 Decisions About Understanding Perspectives: Teach Readers to Approach Texts From Multiple Angles

What Is Perspective?

Why Is Understanding Perspectives Important?

What Other Reading Skills Fit With Understanding Perspectives?

Lessons

Sketch It! Appreciating Vantage Point

Lenscrafters Show Students How to Notice the Author's Lenses

Use Bifocal Lenses Reading With an Awareness of the Author's Perspective

Use Monofocal Lenses Noting Our Own Perspective

Beyond K-W-L Seeing Perspective as a Series of Relationships

Seeing Possibilities Show Students Common Notebook Entries

What to Look for When Understanding Perspective

Feelings Perspective

Frames Perspective

Opinions Perspective

Decide What to Teach Next

Choice 1 Name and Reinforce a Type of Thinking

Choice 2 Show a Different Type of Thinking

Choice 3 Coach Readers to Apply a Currently Used Type of Thinking in Other Sections or Books

Reflecting With Students: How Understanding Perspectives Helps Us

Understanding Perspectives: An Action Plan

ch. 7 Becoming Confident and Intentional Decision Makers

Appendices

Appendix A Nonfiction Book Rating System

Appendix B Some Favorite Nonfiction Texts

Appendix C Clipboard Notes: Reading Notebook Entries

Appendix D Clipboard Notes: Student Conversations

Appendix E Synthesizing Nonfiction Texts

Appendix F Clipboard Notes: Types of Thinking About Synthesizing Information

Appendix G Understanding Perspectives in Nonfiction

Appendix H Clipboard Notes: Types of Thinking About Understanding Perspectives.