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1 Recommended Books by Text Structure When it comes to text structure, there are limitless possibilities. Currently, most educators are focusing on six main text structures. I ve provided examples of each below. Description Text Structure An Egg Is Quiet by Dianna Hutts Aston The Beetle Book by Steve Jenkins A Black Hole Is Not a Hole by Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano

2 Creep and Flutter by Jim Arnosky Dolphins! by Melissa Stewart An Egg is Quiet by Dianna Aston Hutts Look Up! Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard by Annette LeBlanc Cate Frogs by Seymour Simon Lightship by Brian Floca Tiny Creatures: The World of Microbes by Nicola Davies Right now narrative nonfiction is king in the kidlit world. It wins most of the awards, so editors are eager to publish more. Who can blame them? They work for companies with owners or stockholders who want to make money, and for the most part, award-winning books sell more copies. So we have lots and lots and lots of narrative nonfiction, especially picture book biographies. Nearly all narrative nonfiction has a sequence text structure. Some expository nonfiction titles also have sequence text structure. In fact, narrative nonfiction is so plentiful and diverse that I divide it into five subcategories chronological, episodic, braided (several storylines woven together), cycle, and journey. And all of these books present information as a sequence of events. Sequence Text Structure with Narrative Writing Style Chronological narrative Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet The Boy Who Loved Math by Deborah Heiligman Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans by Don Brown Grace Hopper: Queen of Code by Laurie Wallmark Some Writer! The Story of E.B. White written and illustrated by Melissa Sweet Episodic narrative Ballet for Martha by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan

3 Brave Girl by Michelle Markel Coyote Moon by Maria Gainferrari When Marian Sang by Pam Munoz Ryan Braided narrative Bomb by Steve Sheinkin The Family Romanov by Candace Fleming Titanic: Voices from the Disaster by Deborah Hopkinson We ve Got a Job by Cynthia Levinson Cycle narrative A Drop of Water by Gordon Morrison Red-Eyed Tree Frog by Joy Cowley The Long, Long Journey by Sandra Markle Vulture View by April Pulley Sayre Journey narrative If Stones Could Speak by Marc Aronson Lost Treasure of the Inca by Peter Lourie Quest for the Tree Kangaroo by Sy Montgomery Saving the Ghost of the Mountain by Sy Montgomery Sequence Text Structure with Expository Writing Style Chronological expository Bugged: How Insects Changed History by Sarah Albee Poop Happened!: A History of the World from the Bottom Up by Sarah Albee Why'd They Wear That?: Fashion as the Mirror of History by Sarah Albee Cumulative expository Here Is the Tropical Rain Forest by Madeleine Dunphy No Monkeys, No Chocolate by Melissa Stewart Older Than the Stars by Karen C. Fox How-to expository Dessert Designers: Creations You Can Make and Eat by Dana Meachen Rau How to Swallow a Pig by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page The Klutz Book of Paper Airplanes by Doug Stillinger Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes by Josie Fison and Felicity Dahl Try This! 50 Fun Experiments for the Mad Scientist in You by Karen Romano Young

4 There are two main kinds of compare and contrast books being published for children today. Publishers use the term list book to describe picture books in which the main idea is presented on the first spread and each subsequent spread offers an example. As kids work their way through these books, they are comparing the various examples. Other compare and contrast titles have what I call dueling spreads. The right-hand and left-hand pages offer ideas that are different but related in some key way, and readers are expected to compare the information. Compare & Contrast Text Structure, List Books Born to Be Giants: How Baby Dinosaurs Grew to Rule the World by Lita Judge Daylight Starlight Wildlife by Wendell Minor Feathers: Not Just for Flying by Melissa Stewart Lesser Spotted Animals by Martin Brown The Most Amazing Creature in the Sea by Brenda Z. Guiberson Move by Steve Jenkins & Robin Page Pink Is for Blobfish by Jess Keating Compare & Contrast Text Structure, Dueling Spreads Frog or Toad? How Do You Know? by Melissa Stewart Neo Leo by Gene Barretta Those Rebels, Tom & John by Barbara Kerley Mosquito Bite by Alexandra Siy

5 I can see why it s worthwhile for students to practice writing texts that exemplify cause and effect, but examples are few and far between in children s literature. My six A Place for... books fall into this category because as I was writing them, I heard teachers discussing how hard it was to teach this skill and I crafted my structure with them in mind. I can only think of a few other books that clearly fit into this category. Sample Books Earth: Feeling the Heat by Brenda Z. Guiberson Frog in a Bog by John Himmelman If Sharks Disappeared by Lily Williams A Place for Turtles by Melissa Stewart When Rain Falls by Melissa Stewart

6 A growing number of nonfiction titles are also employing a problem-solution text structure. It s interesting to note that the books in my A Place for series have both a cause and effect structure and a problem-solution structure. Sample Books Boy, Were We Wrong About Dinosaurs by Kathleen Kudlinksi The Great Monkey Rescue by Sandra Markle A Place for Bats by Melissa Stewart The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer Mesmerized by Mara Rockliff Stay: The True Story of Ten Dogs by Michaela Muntean Several publishers offer large series of survey books that feature a Q & A structure. There are also a handful of concept books in which the questions and answers are seamlessly integrated into the text and authentically enhance the presentation. Sample Books Can an Aardvark Bark? by Melissa Stewart Bone by Bone: Comparing Animal Skeletons by Sarah Levine Creature Features by Steve Jenkins & Robin Page How Many Ways Can You Catch a Fly? by Steve Jenkins & Robin Page Sterling s Good Question! series Scholastic s Question-and-Answer series What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins & Robin Page Copyright 2017, Melissa Stewart s Science Clubhouse. May be copied for educational use but may not be reprinted or resold for commercial purposes.

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