Kids love nonfiction books: snakes, space, baseball, insects, dinosaurs. That’s perfect because the Common Core\u00a0stresses reading nonfiction for developing informational skills.<\/p>\n
What are some of the things we\u00a0must remember to do to foster nonfiction reading?<\/p>\n
1. Be a nonfiction reader who shares their love of learning new things by exploring information and sharing it aloud with kids.<\/p>\n
2.\u00a0 Provide kids with nonfiction books that span below, at and above their reading levels to give them opportunities to gather information\u00a0that is easy-to-read through challenging to read and understand.<\/p>\n
3.\u00a0 Share tricks for informational reading: marking pertinent factoids, connecting those factoids to their lives and integrating the factoids\u00a0with other information previously gathered from related topics.<\/p>\n
4.\u00a0 Use higher level thinking skills: compare\/contrast, adapt, analyze, synthesize, etc.<\/p>\n
5. Encourage collaborative investigation that accepts the premise that even though kids may not find an answer or their search is inconclusive, the search, the striving for new information\u00a0is worth the effort.<\/p>\n
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