Comprehending Nonfiction K–3
HQT™ Delivers the Professional Support to Improve Nonfiction Reading Instruction
Your Professional Dilemma: Many teachers now face the challenge of adapting instruction to help students deal with more complex concepts and text formats than those presented in narrative texts, especially because 50% of the reading passages on the TAKS are nonfiction.
Comprehending Nonfiction K–3 provides the professional knowledge and strategies teachers can use to include more nonfiction in their reading programs, to help students improve their comprehension of informational texts and succeed on the TAKS.
Each package contains:
 Texas HQT Comprehending Nonfiction K–3 Handbook (1 copy)
Published by: Peoples Education
Description: Provides the curriculum for implementing and participating in 10 school-based professional development workshops that will help teachers expose their students to more nonfiction in early reading instruction
Informational Text in K–3 Classrooms: Helping Children Read and Write (1 copy)
by Sharon Benge Kletzien and Mariam Jean Dreher
Published by: International Reading Association
Description: A literacy reference book that gives teachers expert guidance on how to integrate nonfiction text into reading instruction in a variety of settings
What
HQT Comprehending Nonfiction K–3
Provides
School-based, teacher-led workshops that address:
- Understanding characteristics of informational text
- Examining and refining teaching approaches to using informational text
- Relating research to classroom practice
- Evaluating resources to find a balance of nonfiction and narrative texts
- Fostering communication between home and school
- Sustaining individual professional development to meet Texas and national requirements for Highly Qualified Teachers
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