Sentences with phrase «complex nonfiction and fiction»

Students read complex nonfiction and fiction texts focusing on issues of both current and enduring importance.

Not exact matches

Much of what many students must read in college is nonfiction — often complex and dense nonfiction — but their reading during their middle and high school years is usually heavily weighted toward fiction, often, as we discussed in chapter 1, insufficiently complex fiction.

Students who are the «least diversified readers» (reading only one type of text with frequency) have the lowest reading literacy achievement, while students who are «diversified readers in long and complex texts» (who frequently read fiction and nonfiction books in addition to magazine and newspaper articles) have the highest reading literacy achievement.

Reading features fiction, literary nonfiction, poetry, exposition, document, and procedural texts or pairs of texts, and focuses on identifying explicitly stated information, making complex inferences about themes, and comparing multiple texts on a variety of dimensions.

Although the goal of nonfiction writers is to make complex points crystal clear and to repeat as necessary, I learned this whole mindset is wrong for fiction.

We've found some great new fonts to include with these designs, which will be a lot more complex than the current offerings, which were designed to work well for fiction, memoir, and narrative nonfiction.