Their test scores are higher when
reading narrative fiction than when reading informational text.
Not exact matches
My
narrative unit now focuses on
reading and writing historical
fiction and / or science
fiction writing.
Our plan is grounded in the following two premises: 1) When purposefully synchronized with one another across multiple forms of media («cross-media»), children's and adolescents» exposure to high quality youth - oriented social and ethical story content, i.e. stories of substance specifically about character development, compassion, and courage (CCC), is a powerful way to promote youth academic achievement and ethical values; 2) Especially if these stories, told and «
read» across media, in their various genres (human interest, biography, history and historical
fiction, civic engagement, coming of age, social change, spiritual awakening, moral issues, etc.), are «taught» by «educators» (broadly defined) using an «evidence - based» pedagogy that A) makes use of peer to peer, and adult facilitated group discussion and debate as a primary form of instruction, and B) takes advantage of access to the texts of the story that are made available cross-media (
narratives, scripts, videos, etc.) to foster students» critical thinking and ethical reflection skills.
Will highlight students» areas of strength and weaknesses in key
reading areas including: giving / explaining meanings of words in context, retrieving and recording information / identifying key details from
fiction and non-
fiction, summarising main ideas from one or more paragraphs, making inferences from the text / explaining and justifying inferences with evidence from the text, identifying / explaining how information /
narrative content is related and contributes to meaning as a whole, and identifying / explaining how meaning is enhanced through choice of words and phrases.
Today, Stopher's class is
reading fiction and is focused on the measurement topic
narrative comprehension.
Similarly, teachers can begin to use more informational text in guided and shared
reading, which traditionally has involved mostly
narrative fiction.
Best known for her work on the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series (
read our interview with her on the books here), she's now making her second foray into adult
fiction after The Last Summer (of You and Me), your basic first - novel
narrative of love and friendship.
One of the things I love about
reading and writing Flash
fiction is that a story can turn or pirouette in one sentence from a standard
narrative to something that floats off the page and impacts the r...
Both
fiction and nonfiction require a
narrative structure that encourages the reader to continue
reading.
She enjoys
reading practically anything, but especially literary
fiction, thrillers, and
narrative memoirs.
She loves to
read and review literary
fiction and
narrative non-
fiction and is most comfortable when her bedside stash of books looks like a Jenga pile.
These essays burst with
narrative and
read like
fiction, yet their styles are vehicles through which ideas and information are dramatically, vividly revealed.
I've never
read or heard a piece that was told in this form of
narrative, 10 minutes of flash
fiction the room was silenced in awe of his use of rhetoric and
narrative.
Creative nonfiction employs literary devices, techniques, and elements of style more commonly associated with
fiction to create a factually accurate nonfiction
narrative that
reads in a vivid and compelling way.
What she wants to
read: Literary and commercial
fiction, especially upmarket and women's
fiction, as well as select memoir,
narrative nonfiction, cultural studies, and pop culture.
Again, these self - publishing channels don't seem to be the go - to place for publishers to find contract - worthy literary
fiction and
narrative nonfiction (the latter of which is Friedman's preferred
reading).
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But it's a strong showing, especially since the
reading material being tested was
narrative fiction so e-readers would have gained no advantage from digital - specific functions such as search or portability.
Succumbing to the axiom that romance is the strongest
narrative in all
fiction, I
read and write romance, and I've connected with many same - genre authors on various social media platforms.
«The next step is for that technology to enable new forms of
reading and writing — digital
fiction that pushes the boundaries of how we think about
narrative and storytelling.»
Pattison's Free Traveller is inspired by various
narrative fictions that exist in time from the 1940's island
narrative, The Invention of Morel, by Adolfo Bioy Cesares,
reading this from a modern perspective to Visit Port Watson!
His early projects — including environments made with found objects; wry,
narrative photo works; and a novel copied by hand — began a career - long practice of creating works that prompt both
reading and looking, and that intertwine fact with
fiction.
By
reading this text, you have entered this museum of leaves we have yet to define, and are now contributing to A House of Leaves, a co-author of this
narrative, a player of this game, a character of this
fiction, a performer in this symphony.
His work, which includes documentary,
fiction and experimental
narratives, takes a critical stance on modern - day social, political and cultural phenomena to suggest a
reading of our society from its margins.