Nonfiction
Hello everyone, I am excited to post this blog about practices and strategies to improve reading of Informational texts. The post will discuss the best ways to select juvenile biographies and informational books. Then again, we will discuss the hashtag #ownvoice, and we will discuss the difference between narrative and expository informational books. Let us start by watching this video of Mc Graw Hill Education. The video shows Dr. Fisher explaining the importance of balancing narrative and informational text. Biographies (The word biography defines itself: bio = life, graph = something that is written.) According to Young, Bryan, Jacobs, and Tunnell (2019), biographies commonly described people with outstanding personalities, careers, or accomplishments. Many experts believe that children will not read biographies unless they look and read like a novel. If you decide to include biographies within your classroom library, an easy way to classify, organize and identify them is...