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Direct linkStewart, Melissa; Young, Terrell A. – Reading Teacher, 2019
To craft engaging nonfiction prose, young writers should focus on a specific idea or concept of interest and use acclaimed children's books as mentor texts to help them understand options for developing their ideas. In this article, the authors provide examples of high-quality children's nonfiction for exploring various formats and text structures…
Descriptors: Nonfiction, Childrens Literature, Text Structure, Expressive Language
Clark, Sarah K.; Smith, Leigh K.; Judd, Emma; Rosdahl, Victoria – Reading Psychology, 2021
The purpose of the study was to examine how disciplinary literacy instruction influenced the quality of science informational text produced by second-grade students (N = 45) using the compare/contrast and the sequence text structures. The instruction took place over eight weeks with two four-week units, and with three 30-minute lessons provided…
Descriptors: Young Children, Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Writing Instruction
