Diving Deep Into Nonfiction, Grades 6-12: Transferable Tools for Reading Any Nonfiction Text

All nonfiction is a conversation between writer and reader, an invitation to agree or disagree with compelling and often provocative ideas. With Diving Deep Into Nonfiction, Jeffrey Wilhelm and Michael Smith deliver a revolutionary teaching framework that helps students read well by noticing:

• Topics and the textual conversation

• Key details

• Varied nonfiction genres
• Text structure

The classroom-tested lessons include engaging short excerpts and teach students to be powerful readers who know both how authors signal what’s worth noticing in a text and how readers connect and make meaning of what they have noticed.