Sentences with phrase «reading nonfiction texts»

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

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.

And of course a broad and deep base of knowledge doesn't just assist students in reading nonfiction texts: it makes successful readers of fiction too, just as the knowledge that students derive from reading isn't exclusively from nonfiction.

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.

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.

What makes me want to keep reading a nonfiction text is the encounter with a surprising, well - stocked mind as it takes on the challenge of the next sentence, paragraph, and thematic problem it has set for itself.

Not exact matches

The medieval reader read all texts as nonfiction, as «what happened in reality.»

After reading a novel, nonfiction text, short story, or poetry unit, help students evaluate their reading skills: Did you feel confident reading the text?

Digestive and Excretory Systems Reading Comprehension Activity Many students these days have a terribly difficult time comprehending nonfiction & informational text - textbooks, websites, articles etc..

The CCSS mandates that by the end of high school, 70 % of what students read should be informational texts — specifically, complex and non-narrative literary nonfiction.

Middle - school students must read seven key texts, typically comprising four novels, two nonfiction books, and one of poetry.

Not only did they get a chance to read a really challenging nonfiction text, students don't get to read much scientific — or enough, certainly — scientific literature.

Increasing the amount of nonfiction that our students read is not only important for increasing background knowledge, but it's also important for preparing students to read the types of text that they encounter in college.

Using the Common Core State Standards as a framework, the book tackles text selection, close reading, nonfiction, vocabulary, and a range of other literacy topics.

They also expect students to prepare for the workplace by reading and writing about a wide variety of nonfiction texts.

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.

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.

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.

For example, teachers can choose nonfiction articles for students to practice close reading using skills activities — like highlighting and tagging to cite text evidence — built into each article.»

In 4th grade, about half the texts students read should be fiction and half should be nonfiction, the standards say.

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.

Achieve3000's LevelSet ™ assessment is the world's only universal screener for the reading comprehension of nonfiction text in both English and Spanish, a primary focus of the Nebraska College - and Career - Ready Standards and the NeSA - ELA and NE - ACT assessments.

Achieve3000's LevelSet ™ assessment is the world's only universal screener for the reading comprehension of nonfiction text in both English and Spanish, a primary focus of the Ohio Learning Standards and the OST and EOC assessments.

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.

Achieve3000's LevelSet ™ assessment is the world's only universal screener for the reading comprehension of nonfiction text in both English and Spanish, a primary focus of the Minnesota K - 12 Academic Standards and the MCA - III assessments.

Achieve3000's LevelSet ™ assessment is the world's only universal screener for the reading comprehension of nonfiction text in both English and Spanish, a primary focus of the South Carolina College - and Career - Ready Standards and the SC READY, EOCEP and ACT - W assessments.

Achieve3000's LevelSet ™ assessment is the world's only universal screener for the reading comprehension of nonfiction text in both English and Spanish, a primary focus of the Wyoming Content and Performance Standards and the WY - TOPP and WY - ACT assessments.

Achieve3000's LevelSet ™ assessment is the world's only universal screener for the reading comprehension of nonfiction text in both English and Spanish, a primary focus of the Oregon Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and the SBAC assessments.

Achieve3000's LevelSet ™ assessment is the world's only universal screener for the reading comprehension of nonfiction text in both English and Spanish, a primary focus of the New Illinois Learning Standards (nILS) and the PARCC and IL - SAT assessments.

Achieve3000's LevelSet ™ assessment is the world's only universal screener for the reading comprehension of nonfiction text in both English and Spanish, a primary focus of the Alabama Course of Study for English Language Arts and the AL - Scantron and AL - ACTA assessments.

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

Featuring basic concepts, easy - to - read informational text, and engaging photographs this nonfiction title is sure to create an exciting learning adventure.

Divided into reading levels and grouped by content - area themes, these nonfiction books feature colorful photos, direct text to image correlation, and high - interest content.

For a lesson plan designed to help teach students improve their reading comprehension, for example, you might state that at the end of the lesson, students should be able to read and understand figurative language, plot, climax, and other fiction characteristics, as well as the elements of nonfiction, and display the ability to find specific information in the text.

Students read and analyze passages from real texts — fiction and nonfiction — and sometimes watch video or listen to audio.

Achieve3000's LevelSet ™ assessment is the world's only universal screener for the reading comprehension of nonfiction text in both English and Spanish, a primary focus of the Arizona English Language Arts and Literacy Standards and the AzMERIT assessments.

Achieve3000's LevelSet ™ assessment is the world's only universal screener for the reading comprehension of nonfiction text in both English and Spanish, a primary focus of the Iowa Core Standards and the IAA assessments.

Achieve3000's LevelSet ™ assessment is the world's only universal screener for the reading comprehension of nonfiction text in both English and Spanish, a primary focus of the New York State Learning Standards and the CC - ELA and Regents assessments.

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.

Students will read a variety of fiction and nonfiction texts, accompanied by teacher - created instructional resources as well as supplementary programs like StudySync and Achieve3000.

Achieve3000's LevelSet ™ assessment is the world's only universal screener for the reading comprehension of nonfiction text in both English and Spanish, a primary focus of the Colorado Academic Standards (CAS) and the PARCC, CO-PSAT and CO-SAT assessments.

Achieve3000's LevelSet ™ assessment is the world's only universal screener for the reading comprehension of nonfiction text in both English and Spanish, a primary focus of the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks and the MCAS - ELA assessments.

Achieve3000's LevelSet ™ assessment is the world's only universal screener for the reading comprehension of nonfiction text in both English and Spanish, a primary focus of the Pennsylvania Core Standards and the PSSA and Keystone assessments.

Achieve3000's LevelSet ™ assessment is the world's only universal screener for the reading comprehension of nonfiction text in both English and Spanish, a primary focus of the North Dakota English Language Arts & Literacy Content Standards and the NDSA assessments.

Achieve3000's LevelSet ™ assessment is the world's only universal screener for the reading comprehension of nonfiction text in both English and Spanish, a primary focus of the New Jersey Student Learning Standards and the PARCC assessments.

Achieve3000's LevelSet ™ assessment is the world's only universal screener for the reading comprehension of nonfiction text in both English and Spanish, a primary focus of the Mississippi College - and Career - Ready Standards (MCCRS) and the MAP and MS - ACT assessments.

«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.