Make It Real: Strategies for Success with Informational Texts

by Linda Hoyt

Book Overview

Feeding students a steady diet of fiction is all too common in the classroom. Yet informational literacy is critical to success in school and beyond. In Make It Real, Linda Hoyt provides a practical, classroom-friendly guide to unlocking the treasures of informational text. What's more, she demonstrates that reading and writing nonfiction can overcome the gender gap, allowing girls and boys to share interests in any subject from bugs and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0325005370
• ISBN13: 9780325005379
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.4" x 11.2"
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 5

Customer Reviews

Make it Real

Exceptional book giving strategies one could implement in the classroom right away. Practical and usable worksheets with detailed ideas for their use. I am a literacy coach and am buying ten copies for our elementary staff.