It has been at least a decade since the call was raised to increase the
use of informational text as part of reading instruction.
No one ever held a rally to increase the share
of informational texts in reading standards or to ensure that uniform tests are aligned with a particular set of standards.
The Common Core standards explicitly address literacy in science and social studies, and publishers are now putting out
series of informational texts that students can read in these classes.
The CCSS require increased text complexity and the
inclusion of informational texts, which will require more literacy instruction and support from birth throughout all levels of education.
The 2009 reading framework of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) requires a high and increasing proportion
of informational text on its assessment as students advance through the grades.
Her most recent books are Inside Information: Developing Powerful Readers and Writers
of Informational Text through Project - based Instruction and Beyond Bedtime Stories: A Parent's Guide to Promoting Reading, Writing, and Other Literacy Skills From Birth to 5, Second Edition.
With regard to the incorporation
of informational text of increasing complexity, teachers are required to know how to: «explain factors that contribute to text complexity (e.g., vocabulary, sentence complexity, images)[and] selects appropriate texts for readers at various levels.»
Detailed teaching of 13 key Spotlight Skills through lively starter videos and computer - based informational text analysis provides a complete nonfiction curriculum with a carefully curated collection
of informational text for each grade level, K to 5.
Informational text is key to success in later schooling; in Grade 4 and higher, students encounter more textbooks and other
forms of informational text, and tests will include increasingly more difficult informational text - based vocabulary.
These studies addressed an important instructional deficiency identified in earlier work in which Duke (2000a) reported a scarcity in the use
of informational texts at the primary levels.
It's not
full of informational text like a lot of other pregnancy planners; it just has text at the beginning of each section that serves as an introduction and tells you where to look for specific things.
Much of the conversations I've heard around the CC informational writing standard seems to take a narrow
view of informational text because of the standard specifically mentioning the introduction, topic development, and conclusion.
Considering that as little as 15 percent of current middle school instructional reading is expository (Common Core State Standards Initiative, 2010d), adoption of the Common Core Standards means middle school teachers will need to increase the
number of informational texts read in their classrooms.
For instance, because many of the burdens of adulthood involve reading informational texts ranging from the newspaper to business correspondence to voting ballots to scientific reports, the English classroom should raise the
portion of informational texts on the syllabus — fewer novels and more op - eds.
In accord with NAEP's growing emphasis on informational texts in the higher grades, the Standards demand that a significant amount of reading
of informational texts take place in and outside the ELA classroom.
Moderation analyses indicated that immediate questions and non-immediate questions had a more positive effect on student
retellings of an informational text and a narrative text, respectively, for less proficient than more proficient readers.
Fulfilling the Standards for 6 - 12 ELA requires much greater attention to a specific
category of informational text — literary nonfiction — than has been traditional.
It's not as if local officials, educators, and parents are unaware of the
existence of informational texts or just waiting to be told by national elites about when they should start teaching Algebra.
Some of the most controversial aspects include teaching algebra in ninth instead of eighth grade, and the potential de-emphasis of literature in
favor of informational texts.
This presentation by Nell K. Duke of the Michigan State University covers the
importance of informational text and the strategies for using this type of text in your reading instruction.
Students will continue to learn to read and develop comprehension skills for fiction texts, but the lack of preparation for the
analysis of informational text looms over the heads of teachers.
Challenge courses also have students read multiple
sources of informational text, apply close - reading and critical - thinking strategies to complex texts, and write and revise evidence - based responses to those texts.
Vermont is encouraged to strengthen its teacher preparation requirements and ensure that all candidates who teach the elementary grades have the ability to address the use
of informational texts as well as to incorporate complex informational texts into classroom instruction.
Help your students understand more about the ancient cultures of the Maya, Aztecs, and Inca with the entire
bundle of informational texts, questions, and activities.