This book provides teachers with strategies to assist students while they read material in all subject areas. Gear uses children's books to encourage students to recognize that reading is about using the brain to zoom-in, to question/infer, to find the main idea, to make connections and to transform what is on the printed page. The author explores the features of informational text and lists key books that are organized around strategies and subject areas. She provides ideas to include more informational texts in the classroom through read-alouds and author studies and provides tips for teaching nonfiction forms and text structures. Included in the text are a table of contents, samples of students' work, assessment strategies, lists of children's books and professional titles and an index.--Ministry of Education website.

English language arts grade 1 (2010). English language arts grade 2 (2010). English language arts grade 3 (2010). English language arts grade 4 (2010). English language arts grade 5 (2010).