3. Why Are We Worried About
Fiction?
70%
50% 55%
Nonfiction
50% 45% 30%
Fiction
4th Grade 8th Grade 12th Grade
Fiction to Nonfiction
Shift
4. What About Independent Reading?
It’s in there – but buried!
Appendix A – page 8
“Students need opportunities
to stretch their reading abilities but
also to experience the satisfaction
and pleasure of easy, fluent reading
within them, both of which the
Standards allow for. As noted
above, such factors as students’
motivation, knowledge, and
experiences must also come into play
in text selection.”
5. Selecting Literature for the Common Core
Classroom
Source: Common Core State Standards for English Language
Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical
Subjects, Appendix A
12. Nonfiction Blogs, Lists and Webinars
NCSS Outstanding Social
NSTA Outstanding
Studies Trade Books
Science Trade Books
Others
American Book Awards
Audie Awards
Black Caucus of the ALA Literary Awards
Boston Book Review Literary Award
Bread Loaf Bakeless Prize
Costa Book Awards
Governor General's Literary Awards
Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize
Lannan Literary Awards
Minnesota Book Awards
National Book Award
National Book Critics Circle Award
Pulitzer Prize
Reference and User Services Association Awards
Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
13. Librarian at Palmetto Middle School
Tamara coxt@anderson1.k12.sc.us
@coxtl on Twitter
Cox Blog:
www.e-literatelibrarian.blogspot.com Kristen
Hearne
Librarian at Wren Middle
hearnek@anderson1.k12.sc.us
@KHearne on Twitter
Blog:
http://thelibrarianinthemiddle.blogspot.com/
Monique
German Librarian at Powdersville Middle
germanm@anderson1.k12.sc.us
@bibliogerman on Twitter
http://thisshelfreserved.blogspot.com/
Notes de l'éditeur
Common Core Standards define a shift in the amount of fiction to nonfiction that transitions from 50/50 in fourth grade to 70% nonfiction by the end of high school.
Although the goal is to increase students’ ability to read increasingly complex text, the CCSS recognize that pleasure reading should be included. We need to remind teachers that the percentages are school wide not just in English Language Arts
Nonfiction reading skills are necessary for college and career readiness, reading nonfiction is a skill that has to be taught, students need to know nonfiction text features and how to read charts and diagrams, how to read to solve a problem or argue a point using a text
Textbook WalkNonfiction Text Features PosterHighlighting StrategiesInfographic Activity
Book passesBulletin BoardsSpeed TablesDisplaysQR CodesFiction/Nonfiction Pairs