Nonfiction for Middle School: A Sentence-Composing Approach challenges students to become more competent readers and writers of nonfiction. To reach that goal, this worktext scaffolds thinking, reading, and composing activities based upon the practice of current and past nonfiction authors.
With an increasing emphasis on nonfiction in English language arts classes, and with an already crowded curriculum, Nonfiction for Middle School: A Sentence-Composing Approach features mini-nonfiction: mostly sentences, paragraphs, and excerpts from longer works—a sampler of various kinds of nonfiction. These are grouped into sections within the worktext, which can be treated as units of study and integrated within the regular curriculum on an occasional basis—for example, a nonfiction day, week, month—or perhaps a half-year’s program.
Within Nonfiction for Middle School, all three major strands of an English language arts program are addressed: interpreting, composing, and language.
— From the chapter Nonfiction: Interpreting, Composing, Language
