This book presents a myriad of instructional techniques and critical literacy strategies while serving as a professional resource for inservice and preservice primary-grade teachers as they include informational texts in their classrooms. In each of the nine chapters, there is a particular topic that guides the focus of the chapter. These themes include: a rationale for incorporating informational texts in the primary-grade classroom; a discussion of the unique features of informational texts; the selection of high quality informational materials for primary readers; critical literacy; prereading, during reading, and post reading strategies; the writing of informational texts; and inquiry projects for the primary classroom. This book also contains a preface; an introduction; and an afterword, in which the controversy regarding the Common Core State Standards is discussed. Unique features of each chapter are specific standards reflecting the Common Core State Standards; strategies for all students to be successful with the Standards; transcriptions of lessons from primary-grade classrooms; examples of pupils work as they interact with informational materials; and a Give It a Try section, where a lesson plan or a pedagogical suggestion is presented for the reader to try out in his/her own classroom.

Elaine M. Bukowiecki,Ed.D.is a professor of Literacy Education at Bridgewater State University in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, where she is Department Chairperson for the Department of Counselor Education and is the Principal Editor for The Graduate Review, a journal of graduate research and scholarship. Dr. Bukowiecki is a former elementary school classroom teacher for the Shrewsbury, Massachusetts Public Schools and a district-wide language arts coordinator for the Putnam, Connecticut Public Schools. Dr. Bukowiecki has published widely in various literacy and educational journals and has presented papers and workshops at local, state, national, and international venues. Additionally, Dr. Bukowiecki has published two books for Rowman and Littlefield. Dr. Bukowiecki is past president of the Massachusetts Reading Association and the Massachusetts Association of College and University Reading Educators.

Marlene P. Correia, Ed.D. is a Literacy Coach and Mentoring Coordinator for the Freetown-Lakeville Regional School District in Lakeville, MA. Marlene has 15 years of experience in K-8 education as a classroom teacher and special educator. Dr. Correia has also taught undergraduate and graduate Education courses in Massachusetts at Framingham State University and Bridgewater State University, and in Rhode Island at Salve Regina. She has published in various literacy and educational journals and has presented research and workshops at local, state, and international conferences. Dr. Correia is vice president of the Massachusetts Reading Association and a past president of Nobscot Reading Council. She also serves on the Board of the South Shore Reading Council.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Making a Case for Informational Texts in the Primary Grades
Chapter 2: Introducing the Informational Text Genre and Its Features to Students
Chapter 3: Choices: Finding High Quality Informational Texts Appropriate for Primary Readers
Chapter 4: Creating Space for Critical Literacy in the Primary Classroom
Chapter 5: Pre-reading Strategies for Interactions with Informational Texts
Chapter 6: During-Reading Strategies for Interactions with Informational Texts
Chapter 7: After-Reading Strategies for Interactions with Informational Texts
Chapter 8: Writing Informational Texts
Chapter 9: Inquiry Projects in the Primary Classroom
Afterword
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E