I’ve posted a few times recently about a really productive way to get more non-fiction into your classroom and get MUCH more out if it when it’s there. The idea is called “embedding non-fiction”… pairing non-fiction articles with fiction texts you are reading. Each text becomes a lens on the other and increases the rate at…
Posting on embedding non-fiction earlier today made me realize I ought to post something defining the idea more clearly. Here’s a very early draft of (part of) how Colleen, Erica and I discuss it in Reading Reconsidered. Embedding non-fiction is the process of pairing secondary non-fiction texts (usually non-narrative non-fiction) alongside a primary text in an…
Colleen, Erica, and I have been toiling away at our forthcoming book on literacy, Reading Reconsidered. One of the topics we discuss is non-fiction–the importance of reading more of it; the challenges of reading more of it; the importance of knowledge as both a cause and and effect of successful reading. One of the key ideas…