• Age: 4 to 7
• Grade: p to 2

Written for grades 4–7 teachers and students, Guiding Readers Through Non-Fiction is an easy-to-use resource. It provides essential background information on the nature of nonfiction and how to use nonfiction in small guided-reading groups. The book is filled with many ready-to-use student handouts, graphic organizers, rubrics, assessment checklists, and planning guidelines. In this resource, you will find: teaching suggestions and strategies to help students engage with various forms of nonfiction necessary information for implementing guided-reading practices in the classroom effective strategies to incorporate successful small-group instruction in the classroom plans and suggestions for structuring the guided-reading lesson

Tom Rossi has been an educator for the past 24 years. He has worked with children at elementary, junior-high and senior-high levels. He has conducted leadership training seminars and regularly provides in-service for fellow educators. He is currently the principal of a Winnipeg elementary school. In his spare time, he enjoys marathon training, boxing, and travelling. Tom lives in Winnipeg with his wife, Sharon.

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Dave Leochko, a grade 6 teacher in Winnipeg, Manitoba, has been teaching for the past 24 years. He is the co-author of two other books published by Portage & Main Press, Guiding Readers Through Non-Fiction and Literature Circles: Tools and Techniques. In his spare time, Dave enjoys the outdoors, photography, and boxing.

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