FILLING TOOLBOXES: Empowering Young Researchers With Informational Texts

There is a growing awareness that reading and writing informational texts are important skills for functioning successfully in our current society. Informational texts provide purposeful and authentic reasons for reading and writing while enhancing children's vocabulary knowledge and content un...

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Published in:The Reading teacher 2016-01, Vol.69 (4), p.429-434
Main Author: Hall, Anna H.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic grades
Children
Children & youth
Childrens literature
Content Area Reading
Content Area Writing
Early Childhood Education
Emergent Literacy
Information Skills
Kindergarten education
Knowledge
Literacy
Nonfiction
Peafowl
Reading comprehension
Research tools
Student Research
Teachers
TEACHING TIP
Text Structure
Toolboxes
Vocabulary Development
Writing
Writing instruction
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Summary:There is a growing awareness that reading and writing informational texts are important skills for functioning successfully in our current society. Informational texts provide purposeful and authentic reasons for reading and writing while enhancing children's vocabulary knowledge and content understanding. This article describes The Tools Approach, which focuses on introducing early childhood students to text features, in order to conduct group and individual research projects.
ISSN:0034-0561
1936-2714
DOI:10.1002/trtr.1427