[eMINTS] nonfiction formats

[Lianne Zuber]

I use amazon.com and just type in the names that match the formats.  A
lot of them show several sample pages from the books.  I attached a
short  list that I use:
                                                                
Patterns of Text Structure in Informational Texts
Description
A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder 
by Walter Wick
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0590221973/ref=lib_dp_TFCV/002-5753312-2023241?v=glance&s=books&vi=reader#reader-link


Temporal Sequence
Look to the North: A Wolf Pup Diary 
by Jean Craighead George,
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060236418//qid=1037566417/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-5753312-2023241?v=glance&s=books&vi=pictures


Comparison/Contrast
What's the Difference Between...Apes and Monkeys and Other Living
Things? 
by Gary Soucie, Jeff Domm
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/0471086258/reviews/002-5753312-2023241#04710862584000


Cause and Effect
The Reason for a Flower (World of Nature)
by Ruth Heller
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0698115597/qid=1037565797/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-5753312-2023241?v=glance&s=books


Problem/Solution
Once A Wolf : How Wildlife Biologists Fought to Bring Back the Gray
Wolf
by Stephen R. Swinburne
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0395898277/ref=pd_ecc_rvi_3/002-5753312-2023241




>>> "Julie Fessenden" <JFessenden at hannibal.k12.mo.us> 01/17/07 1:19 PM
>>>
I am looking for websites that show examples of nonfiction formats. 
For
example: nonfiction written in sequencing, or compare contrast, or
cause/effect.  I'm hoping to do these mini lessons next week.  Does
anyone use anything like that?
Thanks,
Julie

Julie Fessenden
5th Grade
Oakwood Elementary
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