Sentences with phrase «on nonfiction reading»

Causing particular controversy is the new emphasis on nonfiction reading; teachers worry that nonfiction will replace literature in Language Arts classes as well as hands - on learning in subject areas.

In 8th grade, just 25 percent of teachers said they put a heavy emphasis on nonfiction reading in 2009.

Not exact matches

Opinions vary on what's the best brain - boosting reading material, with suggestions ranging from developing a daily newspaper habit to picking up a variety of fiction and nonfiction, but everyone seems to agree that quantity is important.

Over the course of two years I read 197 books on different topics ranging from business to physics, from nonfiction to fiction and made every second of my days productive.

I read mostly nonfiction, so I'd put A Million Miles on my Best of 2010 list too.

Tim had written nonfiction books on the Rapture, but said that everywhere he looked, people were reading novels.

On average, both groups did slightly better on these tests than control subjects who read either a nonfiction article or nothing at alOn average, both groups did slightly better on these tests than control subjects who read either a nonfiction article or nothing at alon these tests than control subjects who read either a nonfiction article or nothing at all.

We present five experiments showing that reading literary fiction led to better performance on tests of affective ToM (experiments 1 to 5) and cognitive ToM (experiments 4 and 5) compared with reading nonfiction (experiments 1), popular fiction (experiments 2 to 5), or nothing at all (experiments 2 and 5).

It now transpires that McKay, a Saturday Night Live graduate who is no stranger to political satire, viewed The Other Guys as a slapstick allegory for the recent financial crisis and was working on the movie when he first read Michael Lewis's nonfiction book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, an account of the people who predicted (and profited from) the crash of 2007 - 8.

To reach «base camp,» at least fifteen students in a homeroom had to read a magazine article or a nonfiction book on Mount Everest or related topics.

And in a similarly placed story (on the Times front page) a couple of weeks before Rich's, colleague Pam Belluck reported that a new study in the journal Science had found that «after reading literary fiction, as opposed to popular fiction or serious nonfiction, people performed better on tests measuring empathy, social perception and emotional intelligence — skills that come in especially handy when you are trying to read someone's body language or gauge what they might be thinking.»)

Extracts included: «American Sniper», Chris Kyle «The Charge of the Light Brigade», William Howard Russell «Letter to My Mother», Wilfred Owen «A Beautiful Job», Gunner William Towers (WW1) «The Death of Lord Nelson», William Beatty «We Shall Fight Them on the Beaches», Winston Churchill «Surrender Speech», Chief Joseph (taken from the AQA Reading Support Booklet) «The Gettysburg Address», Abraham Lincoln In addition to this, the presentations also include some optional Paper 2, Section B questions that link to the extracts and aim to develop students» nonfiction writing skills.

There seems to be evidence that CCSS is having an impact on the content of reading instruction, moving from the dominance of fiction over nonfiction to near parity in emphasis.

During the last decade, the amount of nonfiction included in literature textbooks and on national reading tests such as the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has been increasing.

Its ELA curriculum focuses on getting students to read more (especially, challenging nonfiction that builds background knowledge), write more, and cite evidence for their ideas rather than just state opinions.

In English and language arts, you'd see more of a focus on nonfiction «a slight shift in the balance between fiction and nonfiction, favoring a greater emphasis on nonfiction since this is what people are typically reading in careers and so forth.

Now, you may have noticed that nonfiction is seldom on my bookshelf; perhaps I read too much of it at work.

We know that there's a renewed emphasis and focus on reading nonfiction, but we also know that English and literacy teachers love their fiction as we do.

The excerpt we've posted on the Ed Next website focuses on the challenge of preparing students to read nonfiction text, something many educators nationwide are wrestling with as their states transition to the common core.

Thus, in this chapter, we place particular emphasis on tools teachers can use to read nonfiction's nonnarrative forms more frequently, engagingly, and successfully.

As a result of this daily focus on reading nonfiction and writing in response to argumentative, informative and narrative prompts, we have witnessed greater gains in our students» writing, analytical thinking skills and confidence than we have ever experienced before in over two decades of combined teaching.

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.

Downloadable tips and templates on key topics like reading nonfiction, vocabulary instruction, and literary terms and definitions.

This «Core of the Core» comprises the first half of the book and instructs educators on how to teach students to: read harder texts, «closely read» texts rigorously and intentionally, read nonfiction more effectively, and write more effectively in direct response to texts.

The state's reading tests should include not just fiction and poetry but nonfiction readings on those topics and others culled from those specific curriculum standards.

Rather than idle away precious hours on trivial stories or randomly chosen nonfiction, reading, writing, and listening instruction would be built into the study of ancient civilizations in first grade, for example, Greek mythology in second, or the human body in third.

First and foremost, under the leadership of curriculum and instruction specialist Aaron Grossman, implementation has focused on the right things — including building a coherent body of knowledge across and within grades (one of the broad «instructional shifts,» along with reading for evidence and a greater focus on complex and nonfiction text)-- that are easy to rally around and hard to dismiss as unimportant.

But it's still far below the recommended levels — the proportion of nonfiction books read independently varies from 13 percent to 31 percent based on gender and grade level — though the survey doesn't capture articles, essays, or other informational reading that students may be assigned in various classes.

We've written before that the coming Common Core standards put a greater emphasis on reading nonfiction and could change the kind of texts teachers use in their classrooms.

Middle school English classes will take on more of a social studies flavor to meet one of the main goals of the Common Core: introducing students to more of the types of nonfiction and informational reading they likely will encounter in college and at work.

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

New standards place more emphasis on reading nonfiction, and it's an essential skill for college and career readiness.

One of the biggest changes in the Common Core standards is the emphasis on reading nonfiction.

She has authored, co-authored, or edited numerous books on topics including independent reading, classroom strategies for teaching informational texts, new literacies, and children's nonfiction trade books.

Just as importantly, by requiring English teachers to focus as much on nonfiction texts as on the novels they prefer, Common Core is actually allowing for kids to read some of the very texts conservatives and libertarians consider to be fundamental to understanding the world.

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.

It also includes a brand new chapter on scaffolding for reading nonfiction and showcases the authors» latest thinking on close reading and text complexity.

From informative nonfiction reads to silly fictional tales, this list separated by grade level will help kids — and adults — stay on top of their reading.

Common Core calls for a more even split between fiction and nonfiction reading, and with that shift comes a decline in emphasis on reading simply for comprehension's sake.

Keep your students» nonfiction reading on track with Trackers, a collection of high - interest books and teacher support materials to focus mainly on nonfiction text features and main idea skills.

And like the nonfiction reading comprehension questions above, these focus on skills like main idea, inferences, vocab in context and more, too.

Achieve3000 is the only solution that offers a universal screener for reading comprehension of nonfiction text, a primary focus on the new assessments.

This link will take you to a slew of reading comprehension worksheets based on nonfiction passages.

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.

With renewed emphasis on reading nonfiction texts, teachers face a challenge.

Some nonfiction reading materials used at the school will include trade publications, National Geographic, and other texts, depending on the topic being taught.

Your child will demonstrate reading, writing, and analytical skills on the TNReady English assessment by working with short readings of fiction and nonfiction.

You'll discover trends in fiction and nonfiction reading based on deep insights from Renaissance Accelerated Reader ® data.

Taking a break from the myths they'd been reading, she asked the students to turn their attention to two nonfiction texts on the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helen's.

By using this unique book report project idea, your students will enjoy being editors and designing their own newspapers based on the famous people that they have read about in their nonfiction books.