Sentences with phrase «more nonfiction»

The idea is students should be reading more nonfiction in all classes, not just language arts.

Teachers can help meet the informational text requirement by encouraging more nonfiction in their independent reading programs.

But now, because of or in conjunction with Common Core — take your pick — there is a growing demand for more nonfiction books and books that encourage critical thinking.

My reading goal this year is to read more nonfiction, and this pick looks great.

Not every English teacher is happy about the push for more nonfiction.

She used to teach a unit on the legends of King Arthur, but feeling the pressure to incorporate more nonfiction into her curriculum because of the Common Core, this year she decided to teach a historical document and landed on John F. Kennedy's inauguration speech.

Accelerated Reader 360 helps students engage with more nonfiction texts — a requirement of New Jersey's Learning Standards — and makes it easier for teachers to remediate skills based on Star Reading data.

But she says with Indiana's transition to the Common Core, a set of new academic standards adopted by 46 states and the District of Columbia, she's had to incorporate more nonfiction into her curriculum to prepare students for state tests.

During the social studies and science time, teachers are responsible for using nonfiction books to assist with content learning, thereby meeting the requirement of more nonfiction reading.

That remark and the subsequent debate had been precipitated by a contingent of students from the school newspaper who marched on the chairman's office and politely requested more nonfiction writing courses — «of the creative kind.»

We have expanded our guidelines to include more nonfiction titles in 2018 - 2019 and we are also interested in: creative nonfiction, how - to books, humor / satire, juvenile, magic realism, military / war - related, paranormal, supernatural, women's fiction, writing advice, etc..

Under the Common Core, students are encouraged to read more nonfiction books to get ready for the reading they'll do in college someday.

Traditional publishers usually publish more nonfiction than fiction works.

Reading more nonfiction does not necessarily mean that students will be reading higher quality texts, even if the materials are aligned with CCSS.

One of the most forceful arguments in the Common Core is that students should read significantly more nonfiction than most currently do.

Much has been made of the fact that the English standards encourage more nonfiction reading as students progress through high school.

Students in Reno, Nevada, read more nonfiction because of the Common Core standards.

Melinda Bundy used to teach a unit on the legends of King Arthur, but because the new Common Core standards require more nonfiction, she's now using President John F. Kennedy's inauguration speech.

With an eye on increasing rigor and building more nonfiction into the curriculum, policymakers replaced the six Bush - era competency goals with 20 standards for reading and ten for writing.

Bringing more nonfiction into students» lives will require many educators to stretch a little — from English teachers who love to inspire others through their favorite poems to science teachers accustomed to relying on textbooks to kids whose reading of choice is fiction, fiction, and more fiction.

More recently, he has been taking on more nonfiction projects than normal.

Far more nonfiction gets published than fiction; indeed, the profits from nonfiction help support those far less profitable novels.

What do you think about the requirement that schools move to more nonfiction texts as they adopt the Common Core?

They spend more time on literacy, engage in more nonfiction writing, conduct collaborative scoring with a common definition of what student success looks like, and they have clear intervention plans for every single student that is in danger of failure.

More nonfiction titles would have been useful, but on the whole, this script guide will be welcomed by youth librarians.

Layton's article suggests English language arts teachers don't have to chuck favorite novels or stories to incorporate more nonfiction in the curriculum, even though that's what many have done.

The Common Core State Standards have called for more nonfiction reading, and guidelines from the National Assessment Governing Board suggest students move to about 70 percent nonfiction by 12th grade.

The common core aims to get students reading more nonfiction than they have previously.

Well, the transition to more nonfiction readings has certainly received the most attention, but that's just one subtle way.

So students need to read more nonfiction to be ready for college.

Common Core requires a wider population of students to read more nonfiction than every before; content area classrooms are a great place to develop this new practice.

Changes to the English language arts curriculum call for students to read more nonfiction.

The basic hope is that the standards will reorient schools toward teaching students things that will be more useful in college and life — more nonfiction and articles than fiction, more explaining how to do math problems than memorizing formulas.

Instead of so much fiction there will be more nonfiction.

In the lesson, Coleman highlighted two new ways of doing things under the Common Core: a shift to more nonfiction, informational texts and a push to do more teaching, class discussions and writing that are focused on evidence from the readings (and not the prior experiences or ideas of the students or teacher).

Thirty - five percent of responders said they read more books now that they have an electronic reading device, with 23 percent saying they read more sci - fi and fantasy; 16 percent reading more crime and mystery; 14 percent reading more romance; and 14 percent reading more nonfiction.

BookPage contributor and children's book author Deborah Hopkinson shares some fun ideas to get kids reading more nonfiction this summer:

As the Library Journal's SELF - e Select curated collection grows, more and more nonfiction will be coming online.

The ebook market tends to be fiction, but audio is more nonfiction.»