Fiction or Nonfiction? Considering the Common Core’s Emphasis on Informational Text

By AMANDA CHRISTY BROWN and KATHERINE SCHULTEN

 

(From the New York Time)

 

Overview | Does the emphasis on reading "informational text" in the new Common Core State Standards set up a "fiction versus nonfiction smackdown" in English classes? If so, is that good or bad?

In this lesson, students will reflect on their reading experiences in and out of school and discuss the roles that both nonfiction and fiction have played. Then, they will become familiar with what the Common Core standards say about reading, and what critics and supporters have written in reaction, in order to discuss and write about the question "What Should Children Read?"

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