Sentences with phrase «reading narrative nonfiction»

The second unit, Reading to Learn: Grasping Main Ideas and Text Structures, addresses essential skills for reading expository nonfiction, such as ascertaining main ideas, recognizing text infrastructure, comparing texts, and thinking critically, as well as the skills for reading narrative nonfiction, such as determining importance by using knowledge of story structure.

Not exact matches

As a result of this daily focus on reading nonfiction and writing in response to argumentative, informative and narrative prompts, we have witnessed greater gains in our students» writing, analytical thinking skills and confidence than we have ever experienced before in over two decades of combined teaching.

When teachers decide to read nonfiction in class, they most often read its narrative forms, precisely because of their accessibility.

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Both fiction and nonfiction require a narrative structure that encourages the reader to continue reading.

Simultaneously offering the absorbing reading experience of a can't - put - it - down thriller and the perception - altering resonance of a story whose reverberations continue even today, American Lightning is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction.

This is essential reading for anyone interested in social justice, poverty, and feminist issues, but its narrative nonfiction style will also draw general readers — and will hopefully spark national discussion.

Biss» research is far reaching, and she has an amazing talent for synthesizing what she's read and turning it into seamless prose, the kind of narrative nonfiction that makes for compelling, intriguing listening.

Creative nonfiction employs literary devices, techniques, and elements of style more commonly associated with fiction to create a factually accurate nonfiction narrative that reads in a vivid and compelling way.

What she wants to read: Literary and commercial fiction, especially upmarket and women's fiction, as well as select memoir, narrative nonfiction, cultural studies, and pop culture.

Again, these self - publishing channels don't seem to be the go - to place for publishers to find contract - worthy literary fiction and narrative nonfiction (the latter of which is Friedman's preferred reading).

So that raises the question of what I do read, and it's narrative nonfiction of a journalistic bent (one of the reasons I recently joined VQR).

And I just started BEING MORTAL, a riveting nonfiction narrative about mortality, written by Atul Gawande and read by Robert Petkoff.

Let your facts «show, not tell:» Guberman says that the facts in a brief should read like narrative nonfiction, like something you'd read in The Atlantic or The New Yorker.