Kids as young as third grade, for instance, will be asked to write essays synthesizing information from
multiple nonfiction texts and to explain their reasoning on math problems.
Introduce vocabulary in the context of
nonfiction science and social studies
texts with
multiple exposures in a variety of engaging activities
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.