Sentences with phrase «nonfiction texts need»

For many of us one of the greatest challenges the Common Core State Standards poses is the amount of nonfiction texts we need to now use with our...

Not exact matches

While in middle school, students need to read nonfiction texts that contain many technical, discipline - specific words, but these texts also include many «all - purpose» academic words, such as factor, structure, function, and interpret.

And this important shift serves to correct the fact that, for too many years, students have had little access to the kinds of literary nonfiction and informational texts they need to prepare them for the rigor of advanced coursework in college and beyond.

In order to fully comprehend reading materials, students need to understand the cause - and - effect relationships that appear in a variety of fiction and nonfiction texts.

This does not mean English teachers need to cut literature from their syllabi; it means that, across all of their high school classes, students should be spending 70 percent of their time reading nonfiction texts.

«Schools need to continue to engage students in novels, drama, and poetry, but also expand reading instruction across subject areas so they develop into strong, critical consumers of nonfiction texts, too.»

For example, in order to craft and understand some types of stories, students need to be able to cite textual evidence (key ideas and details), determine the meaning of words (craft and structure), integrate information (integration of knowledge of ideas), and read and comprehend literary nonfiction (range of reading and level of text complexity).

The standards also emphasize the need for teaching students to conduct research and write informational texts, which means most of us need to beef - up our teaching skills for nonfiction reading and writing.

In later grades, history, social studies, and science teachers will equip students with the skills needed to read and gain information from content - specific nonfiction texts.